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We saw our first bald eagle at Otter Lake during the summer of 2015 - an immature without the distinguishing white head and tail. Since then we have seen them more and more often, including in the depths of winter, and in their adult plumage. This seems to correspond with the general increase in sightings in Southern Ontario.
At 7:30 one morning this adult bald eagle was feasting on a fresh killed turkey on the ice directly in front of our house. It was -21°C and most of these photos were taken through our living room windows.
After it had eaten its fill I snowshoed onto the lake to look at the kill. There was little left other than feathers. The previous day there had been fresh snow, and the tracks of the turkey and the bald eagle were clear, converging at the kill. The eagle had stalked or chased the turkey by foot, and had not from the air; the eagle's tracks on the lake could be seen for more than 60 metres.
This immature flew back and forth, from treetop to treetop over me while I was kayaking in the west arm of North Otter Lake.
Another breakfast time bonus, clearly visible from our study window, perched on a pine overlooking the lake.
On a rainy day and after a ferry trip from Seattle we happened across a spot where there were a dozen photogrphers with long lenses, trained on a couple of dozen bald eagles feeding off the tide-pools.
And adult and an immature pair seemed fixated on this patch of ice, returning to it seeral times. But I could see no sign of any kill to have attracted them there.
This almost mature bird waited until I got close in my kayak before flying off. I did not feel bad about disturbing it, as I'd just been watching a loon family with two chicks and know that the eagle would happily prey on them.