Sage and Mommy Day - Eagle watching

Every Winter the largest number of Bald Eagles migrate to Places along the CT River to mate and build their nests. Each year the town of Essex holds an Eagle Festival along with boat tours to see these amazing birds. Sage and I had our first mommy-Sage day since Ryan was born 5 years ago!! Now that he will officially be a teenager next week, it was time to finally start spending one on one time together. We have never been to Essex or havae seen Eagles in the wild so we were both very excitted. Sage loves Eagles.

This is a statue in the middle of downtown Essex.

The town had lined up sponsors to have at least 30 telescopes for everyone to look through. It was incredible when I looked through the telescope I immedialty saw a blad eagle perched on a tree branch next toahuge nest. I could also see another nest nearby and the top of the mommy eagle's head was visible. So cool!

The picture above was my attempt to take a pic through the telescope. If you look really hard to the right of the picture -squint and stand on your head - you can see the Eagle on the tree next to a nest!

Here is Sage looking through the telescope. In the background is the boat that we took for the Eagle tour.

Sage is on the lookout!! In all we saw a total of 8 Eagles. A few were young Eagles and still had a dark head. We also saw some hawks and a short eared owl. It was a beautiful trip on the CT river!

In this picture is an Eagle flying. They have a wingspan of 6-8 feet!!

Yes, there are Eagles in this picture. There are 2 perched on top of the trees to the right.

It was a very excitting day. And it was so nice to spend one on one time with Sage.