New Mexico
Saturday 9/5 about 10 am. We live in the NE Heights in Albuquerque at the intersection of Louisiana and Comanche. We were backing out of our driveway and we noticed a huge bird flying from the southwest heading northeast. At first we thought it was our neighborhood hawk but this was a much bigger and darker bird. We followed a few blocks and could tell it had a very distinct white head. I've seen bald eagles flying in Minnesota and down a Bosque Del Apache but I've never seen a bald eagle around Albuquerque. I wonder if anyone else saw this giant bird?
Susan Petersen
Today, January 22, 2009, my husband and I saw a bald eagle on the Rio Grande River on the west side Bosque in between the Central and I-40 bridges here in Albuquerque! It was an amazing sight! I never knew that bald eagles wintered here in New Mexico. The crows weren't very happy with him and kept chasing him out of every tree he landed in.
Paula and Aaron Manning-Lewis, Albuquerque, NM
I live near the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque. All last winter from Thanksgiving until about April, a few bald eagles were wintering about 500 yards north of the Montano bridge. I went walking along the bike trail yesterday(December 2nd, 2008)and there was a bald eagle in the same exact tree from the year before. An incredible sight.
Jaramillo Bongoso
December 18, 2007
Late this afternoon, while bicycling along near the Rio Grande in Tome’, New Mexico, we spotted a bald eagle sitting high in a tree. The area is popular with sandhill cranes and crows and last week we spotted three ferruginous hawks!
Donna Mayer and Clifford Deiner
October 21, 2007
Soaring across the Rio Grande between Albuquerque and the Isleta Reservation, a beautiful black and white bald eagle scanned the muddy red river. I have only seen bald eagles in sanctuaries and zoos, so it was a real treat to see this one just 2 miles from my home flying so low.
Marilee Berry
Yesterday, January 14, I was walking in the state park along the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, NM. I was watching a group of sandhill cranes in the middle of the river when I heard the rustling of wings above my head. Twenty or so ducks were flying low right above me. As I watched them, they parted into two groups and turned to fly in the other direction. Directly behind them, was a bald eagle. It was enormous with a black body, white head, and yellow beak. It was flying low, just above the canopy level of the trees, following the line of the river. I have never seen an eagle flying so low, as opposed to soaring high, riding the thermals. It felt like an enormous blessing to see this spectacular bird. I am grateful to the ducks for heralding its arrival.
Courtesy of Mary Lou Singleton
August 10, 2004 we saw a bald eagle fly over the pedro creek preserve in Sandia Park, New Mexico. We watched it for a few minutes as it flew over us and into the canyon. Courtesy of Tony and Linda Fava
A couple of months ago I saw a bald eagle perched in a tree along the Mora River, a small river that runs through the Mora Valley here in Mora, New Mexico. About a month later my mother and I both saw a bald eagle in flight as we were coming home to Mora from Angelfire, New Mexico. Both times have been so exciting for me and I am constantly on the lookout for another one. Courtesy of Kristin Laney-Medina |