Given the hoo-ha whipped up about the possibility of reintroducing white-tailed eagles back to East Anglia I was interested in seeing the lengths to which Americans go to celebrate their national bird - the bald eagle (a close relative of the white-tailed eagle).

Around this time of year there are eagle days in Iowa, Idaho, Oklahoma and Illinois. In Utah , Connecticut and Wisconsin you have to wait until February, South Dakota goes for March, Alaska opts for November and that's where I stopped looking.  But the tone of all these events is highly celebratory.  These local communities are chuffed to bits that they have eagles that have made such a good population recovery and you get the impression that the more bald eagles there are, the happier people are.

And these are people who are living with eagles - they might be expected to know a thing or two about them!

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  • Wayne - thanks for posting those photos.  To find them you need to visit Galleries on this Communities part of the RSPB web site and the photos are posted under Wayne's name. Lots of good images there of all sorts of wildlife by Wayne and lots of others - it's worth a look.

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  • Wayne - thanks for posting those photos.  To find them you need to visit Galleries on this Communities part of the RSPB web site and the photos are posted under Wayne's name. Lots of good images there of all sorts of wildlife by Wayne and lots of others - it's worth a look.

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