Doozie grabbed a moose pic with her blackberry   on the Hampton Road last week .( not a file photo)

The bald eagle  sighting  in Exeter  without a pic is funny, to me. This bird is  a recluse for sure. The  bald eagle is a resident of  Great Bay, the Merrimack River also has  resident birds.

Kyle  was up a few weeks ago to do some filming on the water accompanied by some other film students from  Emerson College.

The little  boat was fairly bristling with lenses, film cameras, digital slr’s, my  little point and shoot was  someplace.

“Ready when you are  C.B! ” ( that’s the punchline from an old and very long joke)

Kyle doing some instructing .

We  cleared the RR bridge leaving the Squamscott and  I looked over to  the Lamprey River to get  my bearings( no buoys out yet) and spotted the white head of the bald eagle on the banking, sitting  pretty on a driftwood snag. He saw us too.

Oh we got close, kinda nosing along the bank ,Kyle furiously  working  on the bow,  others digging in knapsacks for cameras, that bird took one look at our circus  and  with  maybe  5 flaps of his wings was gone. We got nothing. It was a hoot! He teased us  on the way back in  too, still  no pic.  The   great bald eagle quest begins in earnest now, who will get  something better than a file photo? Keep a camera handy while out walking near the Squamscott.

The Bay was lousy with seals that  morning.

These guys weren’t seasick , they were pooped. College kids don’t sleep, its quite  remarkable they  function as well as they do on such few hours of rest.

Kyle has accepted the projectionist  position at the  Empire Movie  Theater on Block Island this Summer! He gets to live in the theater too, there is an apartment. How cool is that ?

Mike