Got this in another email from H. I thought it was worth sharing.

January of this year, 2011, the weather stayed so cold in St. Louis, Missouri and Alton, Illinois that the bald eagles were cruising over houses in hopes of a quick meal.
Correction, thanks to Hagar.

The photographs were taken in 2009 at a specially designated eagle feeding area near the town of Homer, Alaska. 

The eagles in the photographs were at a designated feeding area at which they had been fed many times before.

The eagles in the photographs were being fed near the home of Alaska's famous 'Eagle Lady,' - Jean Keene - who died in January 2009. A January 20, 2009 article about Jean Keene published in the Los Angeles Times explains:
With her flaming red hair, bright red lipstick and large round glasses, Keene was a fixture in Homer, an Alaska fishing and artists community 130 miles south of Anchorage.

She started feeding the eagles in the late 1970s, when she was working at a fish-processing plant called Icicle Seafoods, located on the narrow spit of land that juts into the Kachemak Bay. Every day she would chop hundreds of pounds of salmon heads and tails, as well as cod and herring, most of it spoiled or freezer-burned, and toss it to the predatory birds.

The eagles' wintertime arrival and the woman feeding them on the pebbly beach outside her tiny trailer attracted photographers to Homer from throughout the country. As a Washington Post reporter put it in 2005, "If you have seen stunning close-up photographs of bald eagles with fish in their beaks in glossy magazines . . . chances are good that they were shot outside Keene's trailer."

When I lived and worked in Florida, we made frequent trips to the landfill.  There were always bald and golden eagles just walking among the people that were dumping.  Quite an amazing site to have a bird that stands over 2 feet tall just walk right past you.

Super photos but you might like to check this out. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/feeding-the-eagles.shtml

patchz wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 6:17am:

I treat everything I read on t'Internet with suspicion these days. The photos are impressive enough without inventing a story to go with them. I can't think what satisfaction people get out of circulating these things.

The real story is actually more interesting, I think.

patchz wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 6:17am:

U4EA wrote on Mar 24^th, 2011 at 2:29am:

If you need some salt, you can have this that you rubbed in my wound back. 

U4EA wrote on Mar 24^th, 2011 at 1:24pm:

I know. But I had to say something.