Everyone at some time or another has one of those moments when one of the most remarkable things happen, and your camera is broken. That was today all day it started this morning as I was walking in and out of the Deer Parks WMA. With the wind today it made all the birds flying overhead look like they were floating in the air like a kite would, swaying back and forth almost motionless. It is quite a sight when Trumpeter Swans drift overhead back and forth as they look for a place to land. Then having twelve Sandhill Cranes fly over head almost as close as I have ever seen them before. This evening I drove out to the Chester Wet Lands area, along the river there were plenty of white flags waving as the White Tailed deer cross the river. To top everything today and for the past 25 years, and what seemed to be an unbelievable experience happened as I sat parked on the side of the road next to the river. It was just like before a kite floating in the air about 100 feet in front of me and no more than twenty feet off the ground. A Bald Eagle drifting, swaying right towards me, he was up and down, and before to long right next to me no more than 15 feet away slowly gliding by. He continued over the road and slowly slipped away into the trees, I have never been so close to such a magnificent bird before. As he (I say he because I saw the larger female eagle in a tree later) drifted by I could see how bright his beak and feet were, how the light shines through the primary feathers at the end of his wings. I could go on and on, to me this was amazing it was like time slowed down so that I could get to know this Eagle.
No camera needed for that discription. I could see it all in my minds eye. Awesome experience for you. Thanks for sharing.
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