At first Douglas Raybeck of Amherst thought it was serendipity that our national bird, a bald eagle, landed in his backyard early in the afternoon on the Fourth of July. The bird, which appeared to be a 2-year-old male, sat on the fence for about 20 minutes and then spent another half hour in a nearby tree. “I took him a half of a freezer-burned chicken breast and I’m hoping he comes back for the other half,” says Raybeck. But then later in the week, two more visitors showed up looking a lot like the first bird and Raybeck began to reconsider. “What I had thought to be an immature eagle may instead be an immature red tail,” he wrote in a subsequent email. Anybody want to weigh in? If so, send your comment to dscherban@gazettenet.com.
Photo by Douglas Raybeck of Amherst
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