Step 1. Drive around. Eagles are big, and move around a lot. Luckily their favorite food can often be found next to most rural roads.Step 2. Find something dead. Golden eagles and bald eagles spend their winters looking for things that didn't make it. Not only does this keep unfortunate dead things from piling up on the prairie, it's easy hunting. Why chase after speedy rabbits, when that road killed pronghorn doesn't seem to be going anywhere? Though carrion is not the preferred food of either species, it's an important food source throughout the harsh winter months.
Step 3. Look for perches. In a land without trees, power poles serve as important perches for wintering eagles. If you do happen open trees along a creek, you're in luck. Eagles also like to perch in cottonwoods and use these for roosting at night. Some places can have over half a dozen, though nothing like this.
Step 4. Enjoy. It's almost certain that you'll find some type of eagle. And hard to believe that as late as 1978 only 417 nesting pairs of bald eagles were found south of Canada. However, due to the work of countless volunteers and organizations, the nesting population was estimated at 12,000 pairs in 2009.
Found snacking on a dead pronghorn.
Power poles are handy.
