I live near a highway. All winter, I almost never went west on that road, only east, but a couple of times I did go west. And, in a tree off to the right in that direction, I noticed a mass of stuff that resembled a Bald Eagle's nest as much as any mass of stuff ever could, but of course, it was not a bald eagle nest.
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