# Bald eagle sighted in Long Beach Ca
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 24, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615 "2017-11-24T19:12:43Z")
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### Author:  [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/1 "2017-11-24T19:12:43Z")
I am pretty sure I saw a bald eagle yesterday while going down the 405 frwy where it crosses the los Angeles river. The bird was sitting on a sigh and I only had a back view of him, shoulders and head. I can’t think of any other large bird with a solid white head and neck with the same color shoulders You would see on a bald eagle. This is a first for me in this area. Feather were ruffled somewhat and he was not stretched out so I disn’t have the best view.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/2 "2017-11-24T21:41:40Z")
Potentially an [Osprey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey), if you didn’t get a good look.
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### Author:  [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/3 "2017-11-24T22:28:14Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
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> Potentially an [Osprey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey), if you didn’t get a good look.
I got a good look of head and shoulders rear view, but as I said feathers were somewhat ruffled. The pure white and sudden transition I have never seen on an osprey, we do see them around here now and then.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/4 "2017-11-24T22:35:37Z")
I don’t necessarily doubt that you spotted an eagle, they have shown up in unexpected places.
> **[Bald Eagles Flocking To Chicago's South Side](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bald-eagles-flocking-to-chicagos-south-side/)**
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> A handful of bird enthusiasts have located the majestic birds on Chicago's South Side.
> **[The Bald Eaglet of Busse Woods](https://news.wttw.com/2017/05/01/bald-eaglet-busse-woods)**
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> An update to our March story about bald eagles returning to Cook County.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/5 "2017-11-24T22:44:53Z")
Since they were protected the Bald Eagle has really spread. There are quite a few of them in New Jersey. Despite the fact that one of the more famous nest cams is pretty close to where I live I’ve never seen one in the wild here. I had to go all the way to Alaska for that
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### Author:  [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/6 "2017-11-24T23:29:28Z")
Just saw one on Wednesday at Mission Viejo Lake in south Orange County in California.
He was sitting atop a very tall Pine. I got a photo on him with my cellphone. He’s pretty tiny in the shot, but its a Bald Eagle alright.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/7 "2017-11-25T00:05:03Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
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> Potentially an [Osprey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey)…
[Sea_hawks!_](http://www.seahawks.com/ms/uniforms/actiongreen/img/seahawks-head.svg)
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### Author:  [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/8 "2017-11-25T00:21:01Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#):
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> Just saw one on Wednesday at Mission Viejo Lake in south Orange County in California.
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> He was sitting atop a very tall Pine. I got a photo on him with my cellphone. He’s pretty tiny in the shot, but its a Bald Eagle alright.
That is about 30 miles from where I spotted this one. If traffic wouldn’t have been so heavy I would have pulled over and got a front view photo. A good friend of mine lives right on that lake maybe a block or so away. I will ask him to look out for it.
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### Author:  [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/9 "2017-11-25T01:37:47Z")
There’s an [ebird report](http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40686485) of a Bald Eagle in Palos Verdes with photos from Thanksgiving Day. Could have been the same bird, or a different one. They’ve certainly become more common in a lot of places over the last few years.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/10 "2017-11-25T01:48:34Z")
They’ve been spotted in a few places in the SF Bay Area. I would not be at all surprised to see them in LA. They do _look fabulous_!!
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bald-eagle-sighted-in-long-beach-ca/802615/11 "2017-11-25T14:29:08Z")
Saw one this past Thursday myself, though there’s nothing particularly unusual about seeing one here. The experience was somewhat detracted from by the fact that it was scavenging a roadkill whitetail. Started flying off as I drove towards it, and my thought process went, “That’s a really big crow…that’s brown…and has a white head.” Majestic bird of prey or filthy scavenger? You decide. 😛