Gold Ray Dam Road, Jackson County, State of Jefferson

[Coil Coyle]

        Riding up Glen Ray Dam road two months ago I had the top down on Donna Marie's "Beachmobile". Over the road ahead I thought I saw a Raptor carrying a fish. Stopping to watch, it kept flying up the railroad right away toward me, on the river side of the road. As it got closer  it grew into an Eagle and it was carrying a pine branch with a needle covered twig 2 ft long that I had thought was a fish. The branch itself was about 8 feet long and 2 inches round at the end where it had broke loose from the tree. It landed in a pine about 100 foot from the road and joined another Eagle who was holding a similar branch balanced across the top of the open branches of the fire shortened trunk of the pine.

      Yesterday I road the "Flying Pig" out and settled onto the grassy hill on the other side of the road, about 2miles East from the railroad bridge at Blackwell road. The nest was finished so I lay there in partly cloudy sunshine and read while I waited.

      After an hour or so an eagle flew over me, circled and watched me a moment and then flew into the nest. As it fed a chick the other Eagle circled and soared around the nest. About 10 minutes later they both flew off toward the river again. In the next hour they fed again and then the sun was bright and one stayed to shield the nest while the other went back toward the river.

       Watching the sun irides of of the feathers on it's back as it soared, I was finally shown why the are called "Golden".

       Me and the Harley guy, Ray, were in agreement that the best thing about motorcycling is that you are "in" nature when you ride. I've got a few hours before I have to go to sleep, I'm going back with the shop camera.

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[Coil Coyle]

Double click the pictures and they open. Below the album page Photobucket has an HTML address generator. I used the third one down.

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[h2olawyer]

Way Cool!   8)

Thanks for the write-up & pix!

H₂O

[Tiger]

Way Cool!   8)

Thanks for the write-up & pix!

H₂O

8)...DITTO...Love this kinda stuff... 8)