"GOOD HOUSEKEEPING" - Bald Eagle
"GOOD HOUSEKEEPING"
Bald Eagle - 7 Photos
When your life is totally dependent upon your feathers, time is well spent preening, cleaning & fluffing.
Having done some brief research, Bald Eagles have 7,000 feathers or more. Of course, they do molt and they molt in patches, taking approximately half a year to replace lost feathers.
And the feathers certainly were flying as this adult eagle did a complete body clean & preen, removing any old feathers (Photo #2 & Photo #3) and smoothing all those that remain.
This eagle must have eaten well early in the morning as the entire process took the best part of three and a half hours before heading down river mid-afternoon, with feathers all in good working order.
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PHOTO #2
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