Leaf-peepers and bald eagles

I have not posted any blog for a while. The reasons are two-fold: 1. Last week I updated my website, but made two fatal errors. I therefore spent all week trying to figure out what the problem was. Eventually, I found the mistakes all by myself and now my website looks fine again.
2. Fall foliage is upon us, my favorite time of the year. This autumn, however, the leaves are disappointing. I guess we just haven't had enough rain in late summer. On Sunday, my husband and I drove to Pymatuning Reservoir in northern Pennsylvania to search for foliage. The best spot was the Black Jack swamp area where I took the above photo. We enjoyed the summer-like weather to take a spin on a nature trail. At the end of the walk stood a man with a digiscope and asked us if we wanted to see bald eagles. What a question! Two islands away, there were indeed two bald eagles sitting in a tree. While we had seen eagles in flight before (not to mention the eagles at the National Aviary), it was amazing to see their heads in a still life, so to speak. To my husband's great disappointment, they did not fly while we were there.
For my part, however, I am astonished at the amount of wildlife here in Pennsylvania. In my homeland of Germany, a squirrel is a rare sight. While white storks have been reintroduced years ago, birds are often considered a nuisance that eat the seeds in the garden. And here I've seen four bald eagles already!