Steve Pollick: Being an Ohio eagle watcher is its own reward

Being a volunteer bald eagle nest-watcher is not as lonely a duty as an old-time forest ranger sitting up in his fire tower, or a solo Arctic fur-taker running his trapline in the dead of winter, but eagle watching is indeed a solitary activity.
I have invested some time this winter as a nest-watch volunteer in Sandusky County, Ohio, after some years’ pause following work in a research program. And as I sit in my SUV, spotting scope mounted in the driver’s window, scanning a nest and its neighborhood for activity, I have some reflection time.

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