You may or may not know that Homer is well stocked for bald eagles. The Daily Show even did a segment about it a few years ago (which is no longer available on the Comedy Central site, for some reason). A local resident, Jean Keane, fed them for years from her home on the Spit.

Jean died early this year, and the town council voted to end the eagle feedings at the end of March. This past Friday was designated as the final feeding day. I’d never been to one of the famous feedings, so we packed up the dogs and drove down to the Spit.

I’ll go into more detail about the whole experience later (it’s late here, and I’m really tired), but when the guys started flinging fish out onto the beach, the air was filled with eagles. Here are some of the pictures I took.