Watch: Bald eagles float down icy Mississippi River


Mary Bowerman | USA TODAY Network

A photographer captured stunning video of two bald eagles hitching a ride down the Mississippi River on a piece of ice. 

Brian Woolman shot the video in December in Gladstone, Ill., and recently uploaded it to his Facebook page, Nature First, Fox News reported. 

The video has been shared over 47,000 times and watched over 1.8 million times. 

The video was taken near Lock & Dam No. 18 in the upper Mississippi River, near Gladstone, according to Woolman's post. 

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