When you hear things like “Illinois has around 3,100 bald eagles spending part of the winter in 27 counties” you’d think that we’d see a lot more of them than we actually do. It’s not that they’re trying to keep a low profile, because that ship sailed when it was decided many years ago that the bald eagle would be our national symbol (over Ben Franklin’s wish to make the wild turkey the symbol of the newly-independent states). You just have to know where to look.