Your most memorable bird sighting or experience? [View all]

A couple or so of ours:

A son was visiting and we packed some cold cut sandwiches and took a ride from Lodi, California up to New Hogan reservoir, which is outside of Valley Springs. There is a sweet disc golf course there too and also beautiful California scenery.

Anyhoo, it was raining so we just parked facing the lake and ate and chatted. All of a sudden a huge and beautiful eagle swooped over the lake, made a dive and came up with a whopper of a bass. It was an amazing sight seeing the eagle hold onto the wiggling fish.

Another sighting, but totally different experience… we were driving over an overpass and a big-ass crow flew from the left proudly carrying a Burger King bag. Well, it lost the grip and dropped the bag on the hood of our truck. A bunch of wrappers and pieces of buns, burger, and fries spilled out and spread all over the windshield. Truthfully, it was a Zen moment for us, lols.

Lastly, when driving on 8 mile road near Lodi a Peregrine Falcon was flying along the right side our truck over the ditch. I was the passenger and the falcon was about 6 feet off the side and was flew alongside us for about a half a mile. It was so beautiful.

We love all birds and animals. The daughter did a paper on raptors in college and she inspired me to write some poems about them, which I will post sometime.