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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Bill Combs Jr. — photographing the Schoharie County Eagle Trail
Description: Bill Combs Jr., a nature photographer based in Cobleskill, talks about bald eagles he has photographed as if they were family. He helped create the Schoharie County Eagle Trail (online at SCEagleTrail.com) and spends hours every day observing the birds — sometimes as he and his wife sit on their porch at home, other times as he visits their favorite haunts. In the early 1970s, New York State had just one nesting pair left but, after the ban of DDT and other protective measures, the state now has 400 active nest sights. Eagles mate for life and Combs first observed a...