The large adult Bald Eagle, probably a female, and two juveniles continue 
to hang out behind Fremont's water filtration plant. They've been there all 
fall and winter so far. The warm, open-water channel flowing out of the 
plant into the Sandusky River keeps them well-supplied with waterfowl and 
thousands of large shinners, which the gulls and ducks leave behind. This 
is the 7th day in a row I've spotted the trio. Several times they've 
straffed flocks of ducks, to check for weak or wounded ones and on two 
occassions they've been tearing away at large, brown waterfowl of some sort 
on the ice. Don't know if they killed them. I suspect they did. Most of the 
time, I see them pick up dead shinners on the ice, which were too large for 
the Mallards to swallow, over 5 inches long, and fly to the tree tops, 
where they down them in two gulps (I witness it through 40X's telescope). 
Plenty of food and fun birding. Robert

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