[wisb] bald eagle pr by Leipsig

All
I hadn't seen the pair of bald eagles that nested in my neighbor's cottonwood 
for quite a while.  Sunday afternoon a friend and I were canoeing on the Beaver 
Dam R and one of the adults was sitting next to the nest.  His/her mate was in 
tree about a quarter mile downriver.  The one by the nest let us canoe right 
under it without moving.  A bazillion carp are in the river, which I assume is 
a staple of their diet (except when they are raiding the farm ducks at my 
neighbor's).  When the eagles are by the nest, now that most of the leaves are 
gone,  you can see them if you look to the east of the cell phone tower that is 
on CTH J just south of the bridge over the BD River on J,  less than a mile 
from Leipsig.

Other birds were scarce along our canoe route, though we did flush GH owls at 
two places and saw a few rusty blackbirds.  One of the owls took off from the 
woods just downstream of the aforementioned bridge on J.  On Saturday while 
staking out a nearby pond for ducks, this bird and its mate were hooting up a 
storm between 1700 and 1730.  Seems a little early in the season for owls to be 
dueting.  When I walked through this same woods Sat morning, I saw 4 purple 
finches.

Greg Seegert
Deerfield, IL

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