Bald Eagle, Homer, Alaska

Photo of a bald eagle perched on driftwood on a beach at Homer, Alaska.

A bald eagle perches on a driftwood limb in Homer, Alaska.

A trip down memory lane.  I took this photo in 2009 behind the house of “The Eagle Lady,” Jean Keene.   Jean moved to Homer in 1977.  She lived out at the end of Homer Spit which extends a long way into Kachemak Bay.  It didn’t take long before she noticed a couple of bald eagles on the beach behind her house.  She worked at a nearby fish processing plant and brought some fish home and threw the fish to the eagles.  By the time of her death in 2009 the number of eagles at Jean’s house grew from two to 200.   Feeding was done just in the winter when times were more difficult for the birds.  Hundreds of bird photographers would come to Homer each winter to photograph those bald eagles.

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