This was actually the second trip for Potter, Caleb and Dave to see the baby eagles on the Island. They went the previous weekend when Molly and I were at a party. We were there this past Saturday and the kids were totally into seeing the baby eagles as well as all the other related animals. The 'baby' eagles are about 5 weeks old now, but they are HUGE!! They are totally brown, a sign that they are still immature, cannot fly or feed themselves, so are totally reliant on mom and dad for their survival. The view that we get of them is from a bank on the Susquehanna river. The eagle nest is on Hiawatha Island up in a really tall pine tree. This nest has to be at least 6 feet in diameter, if not bigger. It is sad that we can really get good picture of the birds themselves, but we would need the National Geographic photographers with really super high powered zoom lenses with us. We did run into a woman with her dog who offered to take a family portrait of us. A rare thing for sure.
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