Eagle Days at the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge

The Edwardsville (Ill.) Intelligencer is reporting that the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, an old Route 66 alignment that connects Madison, Ill., to north St. Louis, is hosting its 12th annual Eagle Days on Jan. 13-14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.

And the bridge is the ideal lookout spot to watch the eagles searching for their favorite food – fish – in the open waters of the Mississippi River. Use the viewing scopes on the bridge to see the eagles soaring above the river, riding on the ice floes, fishing, or roosting in the surrounding trees.

The article sort of neglects to mention this, but many of the eagles are bald eagles.

There also will be Lewis & Clark re-enactors on the Missouri side of the bridge.

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