We are anxious to locate a nationwide list of “viewing sites” for Bald Eagles. Can you please refer us to the best list(s) of sites possible?
A. Hi Charles, There are numerous great places to view bald eagles around the country ! Alaska would have to top my list, Southeast Alaska in particular, but also a place there called the Kenai penninsula. I think by far, the most premier place to watch eagles in the fall and early winter, is the Chilkat Valley in Haines, Alaska, where thousands of eagles concentrate each fall to feed on stranded fish. Suggest you contact the State of Alaska or the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Juneau, Alaska. Check the web site for contacts. The Klamath basin in Oregon is a spectacular place to observe wintering eagles leaving their roost and flying to their feeding areas. Again, contact the State of Oregon (Fish and Wildlife or DNR) or the Fish and Wildlife Service. Finally, we in New York have several bald eagle viewing sites set up specifically to watch bald eagles, both winter and summer, including a public viewing blind at one site where hundreds of eagles gather each winter in southern NY, in
