Bald Eagles Along the Mississippi River
Just 25 miles northeast of St Louis, the confluence of three mighty rivers — the Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri — creates an enormous floodplain where waterways and wetlands provide ideal conditions for wildlife. Here, along the Great Rivers National Scenic Byway, Bald Eagles congregate in the winter drawn to the open waters, far from the frozen north. Early on a sunny winter morning, the silence is broken by a shrill, high-pitched call of the Bald Eagle as it soars above its perch…