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1. Susan Nottingham says:

   January 7, 2016 at 1:51 pm

   I’ve become a bit obsessed with bald eagles – especially since that church in Norfolk (Royster?) began posting pictures and videos of an eagle sitting atop its steeple. We drove directly under a mature pair perched on a lamp post on the east-bound side of the Broad Creek bridge in Norfolk last month and this morning, I spotted a single mature bald eagle from my back yard! It circled high above the Elizabeth River in the space between Edgewater, Lambert’s Point Golf Course and Craney Island. Eventually, it crossed from the west side of the river to the east and came to rest on a utility pole on Norfolk International Terminal’s Tanners Point, where it stayed a lonnnnggggg time. I knew eagles were near me, since they’ve been sighted on Craney Island, at the golf course, on two neighbors’ piers and at that church. However, this is my first “backyard” sighting (and believe me, I’m never far from my binoculars). Is there a way of knowing which eagle I saw today or do you think this bird has not yet been banded? It seems that much of the information available online is outdated – perhaps due to funding cuts – or perhaps a lack of interest. From my point of view, I can’t get enough of this eagle action.