A rare sight in British Columbia 🦅 A large group of bald eagles gathered across a snowy mountainside, an unusual moment

[riversedge]

Sure a whole lot of them.



A rare sight in British Columbia 🦅 A large group of bald eagles gathered across a snowy mountainside, an unusual moment for a species typically seen alone.

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[A HERETIC I AM]

1. Fishermen in Alaska see that many all the time, apparently!

https://youtube.com/shorts/phBPpeCHopI?si=CsZzAD7Y-NyeTa6O



https://youtube.com/shorts/0WkFbdAD6go?si=8OOhLQ2GJ4oHqi_7

[RockCreek]

9. I'd recommend a trip to Canada over the US currently

But Haines, Alaska is a center for this.

https://www.visithaines.com/plan-your-visit/nearby/chilkat-bald-eagle-preserve/

I wonder if nearby areas of BC, Canada get such gatherings.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. I'm sure they do

I live in Jacksonville, FL and we have at least two nesting pairs in my immediate area that hang around most of the year. I see them flying around occasionally and a year ago one of them was in the middle of the street on my way to work, eating fresh roadkill.

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. This was taken about 2 years ago, a mile from my house (Pic of a bald eagle doing bald eagle things, like eating)

The middle of a relatively busy street.

[SheltieLover]

2. Wow!

Ty for sharing!

[malaise]

3. Preparing en masse for

Donvict😀

[lame54]

4. When I was in BC their were alot near the coast of White Rock

[surfered]

5. That is great.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Is their a salmon river nearby?

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[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Not *that* rare

We took a cruise to Alaska many years ago, and at one stop, on the way to whatever tourist attraction we were visiting, our bus passed the local landfill, which was swarming with bald eagles- there were as many eagles as seagulls you would normally see at landfills farther south.

In my town of Nanaimo on Vancouver island in BC, in the spring and summer we see small groups of 3-6 Bald eagles circling the sky looking for food (including rabbits and pets out in the open). This is over a fairly dense, but wooded, residential neighborhood.

[BluesRunTheGame]

12. I've been through Nanaimo.

Vancouver Island is a beautiful part of the world.

I hiked the West Coast Trail back in 1978. Quite the adventure!

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. Nanaimo was just rated the #2 city for livability in Canada!

So fortunate to live here, in so many ways.

[BluesRunTheGame]

14. That's good news and bad news at the same time

Often, places that start getting positive media attention become popular and expensive.

I lived in Boulder, Colorado in the early 80s. It was dirt cheap, loads of fun and amazingly beautiful. Newsweek published an article called “Where the hip meet to trip”. Other publications listed us as one of the best places to live in the US. Pretty quickly things started to change.

It’s still a beautiful place but you need a lot of money.

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. Well, at present, housing is way cheaper than Victoria or the mainland

Nanaimo is only about 110,000 people, and it’s long and narrow along the coast. The city council is pretty good about soliciting input from citizens on what the priorities should be, including growth.

[BluesRunTheGame]

16. Good to know.

Canada might be better at managing that sort of thing than we are.

[chowder66]

8. They know.

[MustLoveBeagles]

17. Wow that's cool 😎

Thanks for posting

[a kennedy]

18. I live very close to the Mississippi River and we've had eagles all year round.

Have counted 5 at one time. When driving to Winona Mn, 18 miles from my home…..I have counted 10 eagles nests on that drive. We have them, just not THAT many.