The photos on this page are photos I took. We have Bald Eagles all around us and I try to get their picture whenever I can. The Eagle above we see almost everyday when we come home. He sets in the tree along the highway and watchs the highway for road kill and the lake on the other side for fish.

This eagle was after some road kill in front of our house. I tried to get a good picture but he had shape eyes and could see me sneaking through the woods.

• Eagle's are Protected
• In Wisconsin Delisted
• Length: female 34-43 inches male 30-35 inches
• Wingspan: 7 feet

Eagles don't get the white on their head and tail until they are at least two years old.

The bald eagle was made the national bird of the USA in 1782.

Eagles will kill baby loons. If a baby loon gets seprated from Mom the eagle will fly down and get the baby. They will also kill the grown-ups if they can.

We once had a loon on the lake where we lived that got caught in a small open hole that had not froze over, (Loons have to have lots of room to fly off the lake)The rest of the lake was froze. Two eagles walked around that hole all day long trying to get the loon. The lake opened up and the loon was able to get out eagles can't walk on water and once the water opened up more the eagles had to leave and the loon ended up with enough space to fly out.

This is a nesting pair of eagles. (Not my photo). We had a nesting pair on the lake where we use to live. It's fun to watch them and to watch the little ones on the side of the nest. Eagles mate for life. They will only get a new mate if theirs should die. Most nest are two feet and five feet across. Nest are made up of twigs, moss,grasses and feathers. The nest on our lake disappeared and no one could figure out why. There were people that had their cottages under that nest that hated it being there.

The eagles you see here were in a wildlife park near us. They keep them if they are injuried and can't be returned to the wild. They try if they can to return them. Many causes of death and injury to eagles are cars, shot for sport or money, electrocuted on power poles, lead poisoning from eating on wounded or dead game that have been shot by hunters, eating poisoned meat used to bait wolves and coyotes, eating fish that have lead fishing sinkers in them, killed by mercury, PCBs, dioxins and other chemicals that are in fish, and starved to death when food is scarce.

Eagles can live to be 20 years old or more.

This picture of this young eagle was taken by my husband in our backyard on November 22,2009.