Author Topic: Eagles (Read 2026 times)

John A · « **on:** March 22, 2022, 08:47:10 PM »

We have eagles all over. This was filmed a couple miles away, just across the river. https://youtu.be/vfJ2bpDrW6k

Guzzi Gal · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2022, 09:03:19 PM »

Fantastic! I have yet to see one in the wild.

LowRyter · « **Reply #2 on:** March 22, 2022, 09:15:37 PM »

I've seen eagles at local lakes but it's a trek to find them. When I was riding in MN on hey 61 around Lake Superior, I saw Bald Eagle fly right over me.

Ncdan · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2022, 09:51:37 PM »

From our deck overlooking the New River, located in the Smoky Mountains, we get to see the Bald Eagles flying just feet off the water, fishing.
It’s always a privilege to witness.

TobyJug · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2022, 11:18:23 PM »

I was with a wildlife rehab specialist on a 20 minute journey yo release 2 bald Eagles. On the way there we noticed a lot of Bald Eagles by the side of the river so we decided to count them on the way back. We lost count at 50!

normzone · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2022, 03:52:33 AM »

In back country Colorado, on the west side of the Rockies, circa 1979, I was in a station wagon with a few other fellows enroute to a construction site for a building we were putting up for a local rancher.

We were going down a one lane dirt road between two barbed wire fences, and there was an eagle eating road kill. As we approached he took off, and flew along the road between the fences for fifty yards or so, then he lit at the side of the road and waited for us.

We stopped along side him just a couple of feet away, and he gave us the eye, evidently not impressed with our interrupting his meal. His demeanor was such that nobody so much as rolled down a window. He was tall enough that looking inside the station wagon was no challenge to him.

The rancher said he would lose a lamb to them periodically.

Huzo · « **Reply #6 on:** March 23, 2022, 05:04:42 AM »

Quote from: rodekyll on March 23, 2022, 03:36:30 AM

are generally a nuisance.

Jeez RK, you and the eagles have something in common, that’s probably what they say about you...
Oh and by the way..
Be careful of them, given the opportunity, they will feast on roadkill...

Chuck in Indiana · « **Reply #7 on:** March 23, 2022, 07:10:23 AM »

^^^^ great story..

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #8 on:** March 23, 2022, 07:18:42 AM »

Quote from: rodekyll on March 23, 2022, 05:54:53 AM

That's the problem with eagles, right there. They think they're better than you, but they have no dignity. Although primarily fish raptors, eagles prefer to chase dead things on account of dead stuff is easier to catch. So as Rodekyll, I am naturally at risk of an eagle attack at any moment. You can always find them at the dump and on the riverbanks when the salmon run. They clean up after the bears. If they can't find something dead to eat then they'll chase down another bird -- eagle, pelican, seagull -- and steal whatever that bird had. They only hunt actual live things when there's nothing dead to eat or steal. And then they prefer herring and kittens and ducklings and such. They're murder on the ducklings.

In the winter they get more aggressive. That one pic I posted is an eagle that has just snatched that seagull out of the air over the lake I lived on in Sitka. It was a classic competition between the eagle (guzzi content) and the duc. The chase went on for 5 minutes. Then the gull zigged when he should have zagged and I got my picture. The eagle slammed it onto the ice a few times and settled in to eat. Several other eagles descended on the scene and ran the hunter off -- it was too tired after chasing the gull to defend its catch. A coordinated assault by a band of ravens drove off the eagles. That night some weasel variant took the bones. In the morning there was just a red stain on the ice, embedded with feathers. Over the course of the winter that lake gets a lot of red spots.

When I lived on Smithville Lake N of Kansas City we saw similar battles with the Canada geese. The eagles lurk around like a former moderator waiting to pounce on a geezered up old goose. Before long, there would be a group of eagles having a goose lunch.

larrys · « **Reply #9 on:** March 23, 2022, 07:29:35 AM »

There is an established population of bald eagles in the lower CT River valley. See them regularly. Raptors have rebounded since DDT was banned. Ospreys are common in my AO and the peregrine falcon population is increasing. I'm fifteen miles from the coast, hawks are more common now than when I moved here thirty five years ago.
Larry

bad Chad · « **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2022, 08:58:21 AM »

We have lots of Bald Eagles in central IL. It's pretty stunning to see them so often, after decades of absence.

RinkRat II · « **Reply #11 on:** March 23, 2022, 09:54:26 AM »

My wife and I (wife mostly) have been watching the live feeds from Florida for about 8 years, following oiginally, Ozzie and Harriet breeding, raising and fletching their young ones . Ozzie passed and Harriet found a young stud to carry on the show. Really quite remarkable the progress you can see daily from hatching to flight.
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Paul B

raul · « **Reply #12 on:** March 23, 2022, 02:42:21 PM »

Quote from: Guzzistajohn on March 23, 2022, 07:18:42 AM

When I lived on Smithville Lake N of Kansas City we saw similar battles with the Canada geese. The eagles lurk around like a former moderator waiting to pounce on a geezered up old goose. Before long, there would be a group of eagles having a goose lunch.

I live just south of that lake now. Did you ever go below the dam in winter to see the migrants? There can be a couple hundred there some years.

dirtiegirtie · « **Reply #13 on:** March 24, 2022, 02:33:38 PM »

Massachusetts there are plenty.
About 10 years back I was fishing on the Quabbin Reservior in MA. I gut hooked a 2lb smallie and after removing the hook and tossing him back into the water I could see he wasn't swimming down.
I felt like crap.
Within 60 seconds, as I'm continuing to cast, I hear WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOS... A bald eagle came down 15' from my boat and had a nice lunch.
I felt much better. :)

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #14 on:** March 24, 2022, 02:50:17 PM »

Quote from: raul on March 23, 2022, 02:42:21 PM

I live just south of that lake now. Did you ever go below the dam in winter to see the migrants? There can be a couple hundred there some years.

Yes! I lived IN Smithville, 400 E Woods St. Some winter days you can see 20 or 30 of these majestic animals!

balvenie · « **Reply #15 on:** March 24, 2022, 05:46:37 PM »

Amazing

JoeKirby · « **Reply #16 on:** March 26, 2022, 08:01:05 AM »

We are lucky here, in SE Ohio. Not only do we have the best, twisty, empty roads for riding, but there are now at least a one mating pair of eagles in each county.

These are in Jackson County

stonelover · « **Reply #17 on:** March 26, 2022, 12:01:15 PM »

A ride on the Potomac Eagle train out of Romney,WV usually affords many eagle sightings. A fun trip!

radguzzi · « **Reply #18 on:** March 27, 2022, 09:36:21 AM »

We are fortunate enough to have several places to view and photograph Bald Eagles...

From our back yard a couple of years go...

This three-to-four-year old was hunting in the back forty...

Juvenile Bald Eagle...

Two young Eagles hunting near a river. Shot in the snow at about two hundred years so kind of a soft image...

This past Winter we were treated to the presence of a Steller's Sea Eagle that is a native of Japan and far eastern Russia...

From a friend's camera while out shooting...

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Author Topic: Eagles (Read 2026 times)