Post by baja252 on Dec 12, 2013 10:16:38 GMT -6
I know this section is for photos of the E's, but I wasn't sure where to put it so I'm putting it here. If a Moderator needs to move it feel free.
As of Last Sunday there hasn’t been much eagle action lately, the E’s have been on a vacation and I haven’t even seen them in person for over a month. I was thinking about going to Eagle Days at the dam in January just to get a glimpse of an actual live eagle. I remembered that my sister and my niece went to the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge a couple of years back and saw several Eagles. I looked it up online and I see their Eagle Days was the end of November. I had kind of missed the peak of the eagle migration, but according to the website there were still eagles around so I decided to go and check it out.
After checking the weather for the week, I saw Tuesday was going to be a very cold but sunny day with little wind, so it should be good for taking photos. Squaw Creek is in the Northwestern part of Missouri, about an hour and a half North of Kansas City. I wanted to get there right at sun up so my odds of seeing eagles would be better, so I headed out at 5:30 Tuesday morning. About eight miles from the turn off an adult bald eagle flew right over me as I drove down the highway. I tried to grab my camera and pull over, but he was over the trees and out of sight before I could pull over. After not seeing an eagle in a month I was disappointed that I missed it, but it was a good sign that eagles were still in the area. I have no idea why I have never visited Squaw Creek before; I’ve driven past it dozens of times over the years while going to Omaha. Hopefully it will be worth the trip.
Right after the turn off on the highway I see what I think is the coolest abandon farm house I have ever seen. This must have been some place when it was built.
It snowed a few days ago, so all the roads are covered with snow. It made it very nice, there is just something about driving on a snow packed road that is fun. Its also is much better than driving on a dusty gravel road.
Right after the entrance was a couple of huge teepees on display.
They have a 10 mile Auto Tour route (a road) that circles the grasslands intermingled with several different pools of water. Because of the cold weather we have had this year about 99.9% of everything is frozen over and snow covered. The only way to tell the land from the water is the grass sticking up through the snow. There are huge sandstone bluffs to the East blocking out the sunrise, but you can see behind the sign that the sun is moving across the grassland and onto the frozen pool of water.
I started the 10 mile loop and right off I see the first eagle.
Another couple hundred feet further down the road and I see one juvie in a tree and another juvie flying off.
As of Last Sunday there hasn’t been much eagle action lately, the E’s have been on a vacation and I haven’t even seen them in person for over a month. I was thinking about going to Eagle Days at the dam in January just to get a glimpse of an actual live eagle. I remembered that my sister and my niece went to the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge a couple of years back and saw several Eagles. I looked it up online and I see their Eagle Days was the end of November. I had kind of missed the peak of the eagle migration, but according to the website there were still eagles around so I decided to go and check it out.
After checking the weather for the week, I saw Tuesday was going to be a very cold but sunny day with little wind, so it should be good for taking photos. Squaw Creek is in the Northwestern part of Missouri, about an hour and a half North of Kansas City. I wanted to get there right at sun up so my odds of seeing eagles would be better, so I headed out at 5:30 Tuesday morning. About eight miles from the turn off an adult bald eagle flew right over me as I drove down the highway. I tried to grab my camera and pull over, but he was over the trees and out of sight before I could pull over. After not seeing an eagle in a month I was disappointed that I missed it, but it was a good sign that eagles were still in the area. I have no idea why I have never visited Squaw Creek before; I’ve driven past it dozens of times over the years while going to Omaha. Hopefully it will be worth the trip.
Right after the turn off on the highway I see what I think is the coolest abandon farm house I have ever seen. This must have been some place when it was built.
It snowed a few days ago, so all the roads are covered with snow. It made it very nice, there is just something about driving on a snow packed road that is fun. Its also is much better than driving on a dusty gravel road.
Right after the entrance was a couple of huge teepees on display.
They have a 10 mile Auto Tour route (a road) that circles the grasslands intermingled with several different pools of water. Because of the cold weather we have had this year about 99.9% of everything is frozen over and snow covered. The only way to tell the land from the water is the grass sticking up through the snow. There are huge sandstone bluffs to the East blocking out the sunrise, but you can see behind the sign that the sun is moving across the grassland and onto the frozen pool of water.
I started the 10 mile loop and right off I see the first eagle.
Another couple hundred feet further down the road and I see one juvie in a tree and another juvie flying off.