Category Archives: Nature

Texas Big Bend NP Day One – Hike to the Mirror – March 2019

We drove from our hotel in Terlingua into the park to Chisos Basin and hiked from there down to the Mirror. After lunch at the Visitor’s Center, we drove to Castolon, photographing flowers along the way, and then further down to the Rio Grande.

Banded Flying Eagle – March 2017

mature eagle

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.]

Nutten Hook 5-2017
Nutten Hook 5-2017
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