Bald eagle on Lake Winnipesaukee

At least one adult eagle is still in residence on the lake in late October. Don’t know whether this is the male or female, and we haven’t seen their two immature eaglets for about a month. I have read that they usually migrate before the adults.

This eagle was not bothered by either me or Peaches practically right underneath him (or her?)

Eagle on the end of the island… (in top center of pix)

Late fall colors on the big water, eagle perched where it can spot fish. They certainly seem to favor the same trees to land in.

I have read that eagles migrate to open water; perhaps they don’t leave until the lake starts to freeze. I know some eagles winter over on the Merrimack River in Bow, NH and elsewhere I’m sure. Also of course they may go to the coast. Sometimes the immature birds return to their birth area in spring, but not always.