Graveman Loc: Indiana

We got home Thursday from 4 days of eagle watching. Really something to stand in a living room window and watch them fly by.

These were below the dam. It seems that the adults were teaching the young how to fish. They would fly out over the river, swoop down and do a "touch and go" and return to a tree next to the parking lot that had about 8 eagles, some mature and some young.

When the young returned to the tree I noticed that they came back to the same adult they had been sitting next to. Sort of "How was that dad?"

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Beautiful shots. I like the location of the shots - Keokuk - great name.

I find it interesting that most animals take better care of their kids than most parents do.

Tazzy Loc: Tampa area

Use to watch them when we visited my in-laws.

rhadams824 Loc: Arkansas

They know if they don't they won't survive or thrive.
Many humans don't know how to direct their children anymore and let them run wild without any guidance and look at the mess we are in. Too many US children don't value an education thus the lawmakers bring in immigrates to do the work that we should be educating our citizens to do and the downward spiral continues.
Now foreign students we educate can stay three years, take a job and business don't have to pay them as much and don't pay SS for that time. Then they stay after that time and we have so many people out of work and more unemployment of US citizens occurs.
At a college where I taught we now have 700± foreign students out of 4,000 or so because we are a lower cost provider and most will not return home. We don't know how many come in by this route and stay. They are usually better academically and are hired because they will work for less just to stay or they excel, get the better jobs or go to graduate school. When I was in Graduate School we were 90% or so American born. Now that is reversed. Fewer Americans are getting their Ph.D. relative to foreigners.
We are now very hard pressed to hire an American Professor, most job applicants are foreign born, educated here and are able to stay.
I wish I had an answer for our problems. My grandkids are going to be in a world completely different from the one I grew up in and I fear it isn't going to be as good.
If I made any mistakes in my post I'm sure someone will correct me. I know this rant belongs somewhere else, just don't know where.

sterrill Loc: missouri

I live about 40 miles from there. The eagle watching is better from the Illinois side just abroad the river. Be glad you are not there today. It's 5 below this am. Nice shots.

Graveman Loc: Indiana

Thank you, we enjoyed ourselves, not only with the eagles but the history in the area.

We did spend some time on the Illinois side, around Warsaw and up through Nauvoo and up the river road north. Seems from day to day they moved either up or down the river. The best day was at Victory Park in Keokuk. They were teaching the young ones how to fish.

Want to go back in warmer weather, most of the time it wasn't bad except one day when it got down into the mid teens.