General News: Eagle Spotting in Cornwall Bay
October 01, 2007
It may well be worth your time to take along a pair of binoculars on your next trip to the riverfront. A specialist in the Hudson River estuary eco-system, Tom Lake, spotted a bald eagle last week right in Cornwall Bay.
Lake, who publishes a weekly almanac of bird, fish, animal and plant sightings along the Hudson River from Brooklyn to its source, saw an immature eagle land on a piece of dead wood that rises from the river at low tide.
He writes in the almanac that "each time a wave broke over the log, the eagle would lift a foot. That seemed very fastidious for a bald eagle."
Lake, who works for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, also noted that last week "also marks Henry Hudson’s northernmost penetration of the river 398 years ago, against a backdrop of human occupation that disappears into the deep time of the Hudson River valley’s past."
The changes that have occurred in the river's environment during those four centuries are voluminous. From a busy transportation route, to a polluted future and back to cleaner waters, the river 's history has been one of rejuvenation -- the return of the bald eagle only one milepost among many to celebrate.
Read more entries in Tom Lake's Hudson River Almanac here.
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