A Bald Eagle, standing on the ice of Rainbow Lake, eating a Canada Goose it had apparently just killed. The eagle returned the next day to continue feeding on the carcass, John reported.
Rainbow Lake has a very developed shoreline.
But John wonders if the bird might be hanging out in the wilds of the old IBM property, hundreds of undeveloped acres of woodland just north of the lake. There's been quite a bit of debate in Ridgefield in the past couple years about whether the town should buy the land, which connects to more than 600 acres of parkland and is part of one of the largest chunks of undeveloped land left in Fairfield County. Here's one answer. Barrows of Wilton looked out her window one day recently and saw a squirrel, whose tail had become caught in the wiring from which the tube feeder was suspended. She went outside to see what she could do and the squirrel, already upset, panicked and jumped off the feeder - leaving part of its tail behind.