Growing up you never really ever seen an eagle here. Heck I don't think they were around here ten years ago. In the last five years I been seeing them around the house here and there sometimes. There are only two documented nests in my county. I recon I may set my mind to finding a third one.

I had a similar experience over the years here in Wisconsin. I remember my Mom pulling over to the side of the highway in amazement to look at one eating on roadkill when I was a kid. Now I see nests in cattle pastures. Heck of a come back.

In Fall I keep my duck boat across the road from my house in a little slough that is part of Lake Onalaska. The Bald Eagles congregate here big time, picking off wounded and other waterfowl. There are times there are bird parts laying on the ground along the shore. One day I was walking to my boat and noticed a lot of feathers, etc. in one area. As I watched there were more parts falling from the trees, and when I looked up there was a Bald Eagle tearing up a Coot.

In late season there are Eagles on a lot of the Muskrat huts waiting for a meal.

Moosetrot

I was almost 60 years old before seeing my first bald eagle in NC. Now they are very common near lakes and rivers.

Ospreys and eagles eating up the fish in my pond

only ever saw them way up north in WI when I was a kid , last 10-15 years they are may more and clear to the ILL border.

6 known nests in Green county.

https://nests.report/bald-eagle-nest-locations-in-wisconsin/

in 1975 there were like 75 and they were way up north.