On Wednesday morning (10:00-10:50 AM), Tilden and I saw four BALD EAGLES at the south end of Cayuga Lake. We had long scope views of a couple of these eagles at rest. Better still, we witnessed a spectacular show from these birds in the air all over Stewart Park and the Newman Golf Course. One circled over the ducks on the lake. One passed right overhead, holding a small fish in talons balled and rolled back like piano casters. And for several stirring minutes, all four rose together over Fall Creek and the Stewart Park woods, mostly arranged two by two, alternating between seeming choreographed synchrony and bursts of aggression and tumbling aerobatic evasion. At one point the eagles - which included one adult, two third-year birds, and one dark first-year or second-year bird - ranged far to the south almost out of view, but then they returned for a while. We did not see them during the final 15 minutes of our visit, as we walked back from the golf course to Stewart Park.
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