This past Saturday, I went to work with Marshall. Anyway, he told me of this place where some Bald Eagles hang out. You can put two and two together. Marshall is a Sanitation Engineer AKA garbage truck driver and Hemlock Knoll....is a Waste Management Facility AKA The DUMP. He told me how sad he feels for these Eagles, some of them their white heads can barely be seen as it is covered in black from picking through the garbage.
When we got into Hemlock Knoll, past the scales and about three miles in, I saw them soaring through the sky, having never seen an Eagle up close, except the Golden Eagle at USM so many years ago, but never a Bald Eagle, I was excited and a little sad. The beautiful birds, picking through garbage like an ordinary Seagull. Marshall told me, they are still great hunters and would fair well in the wild...but the pickin's are easy and good at the dump. This dump is what I like to refer to a specialty dump, although there is household waste, Marshall hauls waste from the Seafood manufacturers... So what is not canned or bottled or processed, and can't be used, is thrown out. This is where it goes...and I guess these birds just love it, so I know at least they are eating well, although it is something we probably would not eat ourselves. So at very least these pretty birds do eat, they just look awful. I was able to snap some pictures of a few of them, and most looked pretty clean to me. I will let you be the judge.
