Raptor

The other day I was driving through Jennersville and could hardly believe my eyes: I saw a bald eagle in flight! The huge, magnificent bird -- "unmistakeable," as my Audubon guidebook says -- was soaring gracefully over the Red Rose Inn and then headed north, circling over the Route 1 bypass intersection. I had seen bald eagles nesting just down river of the Conowingo Dam in Maryland, but I had never seen one this far north.

Speaking of the Conowingo Dam, it's well worth a family trip. It's a short drive down Route 1 into Maryland. My friend John's father helped construct the hydroelectric power plant back in the late 1920s, and the postcard is a souvenir from a visit that his parents made on Sunday, Feb. 12, 1950.