WOW! Those pix are GREAT! My hubby and I just happen to be staying in Lake City Minnesota - right on the Mississippi river. We've been here 5 days and we have seen 15 eagles - I'm not kidding!!
Neither my hubby nor I had ever seen one in the wild - it has been soooo WONDERFUL! We saw two nests too - it is just incredible.
There is a National Eagle Center in Wabasha MN and they have 3 eagles on site - ones that have been injured and cannot fly so they keep them there where the public can view them. They also do teaching programs with them. Anyway, we went to the center learned so much about eagles. That nest you see in the picture is probably about five feet tall, 8-9 feet across, and weighs about 700 pounds. In general, eagles return to the same nest each year and they add to it - so a new nest will be smaller, but "grows" each year.
They are incredible birds - we feel so fortunate to be here for a few days and able to see them in the wild!
Thanks for sharing your pictures!!!