Salem’s parks ranger is passionate about eagles, getting kids outside

Mike Zieker spent years working in a park near a bald eagle nest in central Colorado.

But the 55-year-old ranger was almost speechless as he tried to describe the sight of a raptor diving for fish on the bank of the Willamette River — something he often witnesses as he walks the trails at Minto-Brown Island Park.

“I still stop what I’m doing when I see an eagle. It never gets old,” he said.

Zieker…