It did not take us long to find a nice kayaking venue just north of Holyoke. We did about five miles in the Oxbow Pond (actually a river in the shape of the letter C with a small detour into Hubert’s Pond. We spotted a nice Blue Heron and a double-crested Cormorant but little else until we spotted a pair of Bald Eagles soaring overhead. About a half hour later the eagles returned but this time there were three of them. Fifty years without ever seeing a Bald Eagle and I have now seen four in the last two weeks. I was able to get a photograph that was good enough to confirm the species but nothing worthy of posting. After returning to our put in point, Jeanine pulled out and I continued out onto the Connecticut River for another couple of miles. The wind induced chop was rather heavy so I kept close to shore.