Originally posted by bschriver11 It could make for cold fingers but i was shooting out of the car window, they stock trout in the winter and there always seems to be quite a few of them in the back of this cove where a nice stream comes into the dam so the Eagle is there quite often close to the road.
Thanks for the background information.
In rural Iowa, some eagles nest around streams or small bodies of water, others nest around pig farms. Hog farmers deposit dead fetal piglets into the field to fertilize soil. Eagles can be seen in bunches in farm fields presumably dining on carrion piglets, although from the road we cannot really ascertain what it is that brought them together.
Presumably no one on a photo website would be interested in this, but Iowa has lots of wind farms. In 2020 wind energy accounted for 57% of Iowa's electricity generation. Pig farmers within a certain distance of wind farms (I don't know the distance markers), are legally prohibited from depositing deceased fetal/baby animals in the field because the turbine blades present a danger to bald eagles. Wind farms are required to employ people, especially in winter months, to count dead eagles under the turbines. The same persons warn farmers violating the rules. Wind farms can also be held to account financially for deceased eagles. I presume farmers can be held to account as well if they violate federal rules and/or regulations and laws.