From: Shannon Stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 11/05/02-08:22:12 PM Z
Lucky you.
Were they golden eagles? I think golden eagles have been
reintroduced along the southeastern appalachian chain. I saw some
people releasing some once. They had been hatched in captivity I
think, and gradually trained to find their own food so that they
could live in the wild.
--shannon
>One of the greatest joys experienced from my involvement with
>photography, greater even than image making, has been the
>experiences derived from seeing things that most never see.
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>Yesterday, at Tallulah gorge near Clayton, Georgia offered such an
>experience. The gorge itself is awesome, some several hundred feet
>high with a fairly large stream at the bottom that cascades down the
>side of a mountain. And the fall colors this year are spectacular.
>However, as Sam Wang and I stood at the top of an overlook over the
>gorge something quite unique to both of our experiences took place.
>A large number of eagles, perhaps as many ad 12-15, suddenly began
>soaring beneath us, quite nearby at perhaps less than 25-50 feet.
>And from time to time one of the eagles would fly straight up toward
>us, coming to with 10-15 feet, and then at the last moment veer off
>the one side. I have seen eagles fly above me on many occasions, but
>the sight of them soaring beneath us, and the bottom of the gorge
>hundreds of feet below them, was simply awe inspiring. We could
>even see the way they used the top tips of their wings to adjust to
>the thermals, as they circled around just beneath our vantage point.
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>Happily I did not have on hand a suitable camera to photograph the
>experience. Better I think, because that might have distracted me
>from seeing.
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