My wife thought this looked like an ocean wave behind the eagle, but I had to assure her it was indeed taken in Iowa. It would seem rude of me to sneak off to a sunny warm beach just to get a snapshot of an eagle, while she froze back home. River dams and spillways will have water flow all winter long, no matter how cold it gets…which means there’s no reason to dream of California unless the chill here is just too much to take.