HADDAM — “An eagle at one o’clock! It’s heading right toward us,” said Andy Griswold, a Connecticut Audubon Society guide. “Judging from its size, it’s a female. It looks like she’s heading back to the nest.” 

We watched as the mature bald eagle, with a snow white head and tail and dark body, soared above us, and then landed in a large nest resting in a barren tree.