WalkAbout: Seven Islands

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Bald eagle photographed at Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge

Special thanks to all who recently attended my Ijams WalkAbout: Summer Birds at Seven Islands.

As a group leader, you always hope that you find at least one memorable bird. One moment to remember. Something to make Mayberry's Gomer Pyle say, "Well, Shazam!" 

Despite the plethora of indigo buntings, yellow-breasted chats, common yellowthroats and a pair of ospreys (from a great distance)...our bird to remember came late in the walk near the river and Steamboat Island, when someone looked up and said, "Hey, there's a bald eagle."

As there most certainly was. 

Statuesque. Noble. Perched on a broken dead tree, surveying the channel below like it owned the entire river. As indeed on that day it did.

Ijams WalkAbouters a short time before we found the eagle.

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