Bald Eagle!!

Yesterday SJ and I drove up to the DEP police station to pick up my bike -- where it safely spent the night after I had to leave it there when I was taken by ambulance to the Kingston hospital after my wasp sting.  The ambulance trip was not necessary but was required after they gave me the shot of adrenaline.  Anyway, we had to go back up the the reservoir area to get my bike, so we decided to make an afternoon of it and go for a ride on some new roads in the catskills.  

We started off the ride by crossing the reservoir on the bike/walking path in the picture above.  We saw this guy taking photos of something with a big camera and I glanced over to see what it was, thinking it was one of the many canada geese that were hanging out by the water's edge.  After a double take, I spotted the white head of a bald eagle!!  It was huge.  We immediately stopped to observe  while the eagle proceeded to continue eating his lunch (a fish).  The photographer was able to get really close to it.  We didn't get much closer because we didn't want to ruin the guys pictures.  You can kind of make out the white head in the pictures above.  

On our way back from the ride, we were crossing the same path when we spotted 2 eagles soaring/playing above the trees.  We rode over to where they were and got a good look at the 2 who were juveniles (didn't have the white head/tail).  It looked like they were almost fighting with each other.  

Our ride was a really good one--we found a 2 hour loop that was full of steep hills.  I tried to take it easy after the morning episode of the bee reaction returning after swim practice.  That wasn't fun.  Another epi pen to the leg, shots of benedryl & some kind of steroid.  Luckily, no hospital, just a trip to the Urgent Care place.  Really not the way I wanted to start off the day.  

I think I'm on the road to recovery today.  I'm on it with 3 different medicines.