Ice storm today.
No ton's of showy snow like distant years past, but still. A new normal.
Late 70's probably, word came to the prairie that bald eagles were
again wintering around dams along the Mississippi River. Heather and I set off to see for ourselves.
And we did. This one, an immature bird beset on the ice by
crows:
Then while trudging through yet more snowy woods towards yet another brisk overlook on the mighty river, at a small clearing in quiet forest we found these.
It'd never occurred to us that eagles made snow angels.
On a winter afternoon spent roaming high above the
Mississippi River back when only a few eagles were anywhere, they taught us better.
#snow angels
