“LAGRO BALD EAGLE
WATCH!”
Bald Eagles have been spotted quite
frequently at the bridge over the Wabash River at Lagro. The adults
of our national bird have white heads and tails and yellow bills,
which distinguish them from Golden Eagles. Wingspread is 7 - 8 ft.
Voice is a harsh creaking cackle kleek-kik-ik-ik-ik, or a
lower kak-kak-kak.
--Peterson's Field Guide
photo by LEAD DOG
What you are looking for is a black blob perching in the tree
tops. You will need to bring your binoculars along and a spotting
scope is very helpful. They have been seen numerous times on both
sides of the bridge. Park on the northeast end of the bridge on the
old stone abuttment. You can safely walk out on the bridge's wide
shoulders to look upstream and downstream. The water is very high
now. We saw two swans up close and personal when we hid the cache.
The day we spotted old Baldy, there was a flock of Herring gulls
fishing here, as well as a Great Blue Heron...So come on all ye
Birdwatching Geocachers!!(Hint: If you hear the crows putting up a
racket, they're "mobbing" something --maybe an Eagle...) Also the
way to tell a soaring Eagle from a Turkey Buzzard, which are very
common around here, is that Eagles soar with their wings flat,
Turkey Buzzards, with their wings at a dihedral.
From 1985 to 1989, 73 Alaskan and Wisconsin eagle chicks were
raised in artificial nests at Monroe Lake and released into the
wild. The first sucessful Indiana bald eagle nests of the 20th
century were at Lake Monroe and Cagles Mill Lake in 1991. Before
Indiana's reintroduction project, bald eagles last nested in the
northwest corner of the state in 1897.
EAGLE WATCH
Lagro, Indiana
I now have the magnificent Bald Eagle on
my Life List. Once on the brink of extinction, they are now making
a comeback. Many have been spotted this month on the River at Peru.
So far no confimed nesting pairs in this area, but there is a huge
nest near Seven Pillars....Good Luck!!
UPDATE JULY 2005:
The 2005 Indiana Eagles Nest count has been completed and stands at
60, up ten from last year. New nests were found in Wabash and Union
counties, showing that the nesting range is expanding. Martin
County leads the pack with five nests, and Patoka Lake leads the
lakes with four.
The cache container is a black plastic micro
container.A few yards from the cache is a Bait Stand in the old
Inter-Urban station. If you have sighted a perching Eagle, go buy
some fish at the bait stand. Go up on the bridge, hold the fish as
high over your head as you can, and yell in a high-pitched shrill
voice, "Here Birdie,Birdie!" Don't worry, people do this all the
time. It IS recommended you wear a welder's glove however.
 Cache In -
Trash Out!  BRING YOUR
MUTT!
 Available year-round except. Aug. 15 Less than two miles from car to cache
 Check
lake Flood level Before Caching  Every
snowflake is different, or so they say
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