This is a letter that he wrote to his daughter.

I wish the bold eagle had not been chosen to represent our country.

He's a bird of bad moral character.

And on the other side is a golden eagle.

Yes, for security.

My name is Brad Ory, and this is probably was my 26th or 27th year that I've been volunteering.

I keep coming back every winter because every time I see a bald eagle, I tend to get emotional at times.

One on the front, and he's looking like this one.

The fact that the American eagle almost disappeared from the face of the earth because of pollution and whatnot, and it has come back in great numbers, that means a lot to me, and it should mean a lot to a lot of people.

Eagles came back from the brink of extinction through the help of conservation efforts from conservancies and the public, and without their help, we wouldn't be able to see the eagles in this area, and that would be devastating.

Well, it's spectacular.

I mean, I was just overwhelmed by these huge creatures.

It was just magnificent.

When I first started doing this, there were eagles to be seen, but they were in limited places and in limited quantity.

And we've now increased the number of sightings that we see, and it makes you feel good because you've helped to accomplish and record the progress, the return of the bald eagle.

When volunteers are out on their shifts on the weekends, they're recording counts of the adult eagles that they are seeing, the immature eagles, and this is important because this data is used to see how eagle populations have been returning.

We're looking at it right here.

It's the Delaware River.

Years ago, the water was polluted, but the conservation that's taken place has made the water clean enough for fish, and that's created a better environment for the bald eagles.

When someone sees their first eagle, they don't say a whole lot.

They just look.

They were flying around, and then they were down on the ice, and then there were white feathers flying all over.

When I saw my first bald eagle in the wild, I was amazed, and I immediately said, this is really cool, and I have to help.

We help people experience eagles without disturbing them through eagle etiquette teachings, observing them from a safe distance, as well as being quiet when you're observing, just trying to make sure that they are within their natural habitat and not being disturbed while people can still learn from them.

The fact that the bald eagles almost disappeared completely from this river and other areas just shows that the abuse of the environment was real.

I come here every weekend.

I come to this spot, and I go to Mongar, and I look at all the birds, but particularly the eagles.

The return of the bald eagle says that people have taken a liking to the bald eagle, realized that there was a problem, and they addressed the problem, and they're back.