Kip’s Comments - January 16, 2026 — LadagePhotography.com

George and Naomi and Other Raptors

When we moved from our home in town out into the country, we gave up my very active backyard bird habitat. Over the decades I counted many dozen bird species visiting our cover, small pond and stream, and many feeders. Now that we live in the country we gave up that habitat for open fields with a few trees scattered around farm homes. While I really miss my many town birds, we are treated to near daily visits by bald eagles. In fact, we have nicknamed them Naomi and George - names given to my in-laws over the years. We consider the visits from the eagles to be Al and Marlene checking on us. We miss them both so much. Today George and Naomi stopped by together - something that does not happen often.