Bald Eagles

I have been to Deer Island a couple of times this winter to spot the bald eagles that make there way there at this time of year.  

They are driven south from Canada to the first open water that they can find as the lakes freeze further north.

The Merrimack river - about 30min drive from my house - has a section that doesn't freeze over and usually has a few of these birds hanging around.

David Sokol - a photographer I met recently posted some pretty awesome shots of the birds in a recent blog post - worth looking at http://davidjsokol.blogspot.com/2009/02/deer-island.html