While paddling with Bruce Romanchak, I got a couple of nice on-the-wing eagle photos near Stuyvesant, after launching at Nutten Hook. In the “wings up” mature eagle photo, a band is visible on the trailing legs, and with some effort and image processing, it was deciphered.
Here is what appeared in the Hudson River Almanac of April 29, 2017:
5/4 – Stuyvesant, HRM 127: I got a nice photo today of an adult bald eagle in flight. When I looked at the image, I noticed that the bird had a blue band on its left leg, likely a New York State DEC band. [Photo of bald eagle courtesy of Kaare Christian.]
- Kaare Christian
[After viewing Kaare’s photograph, I concluded that the blue band had alpha-numeric S72. This was a female, fledged in 2007 from bald eagle nest NY106 in Allegheny County, about 280 miles west of Stuyvesant, in Columbia County. Pete Nye.]
