Bald Eagle

[sixshot]

Went down to the taxidermist today & on the way down we spotted this large Bald Eagle guarding a dead Cottontail rabbit from up on his perch on a telephone pole. He was pretty content to let me take 4 photo's of him. He was still sitting there an hour later when we came back.

Dick

[dobegrant]

Wow, that is pretty cool,good picture

[kings6]

I took the little Kimber down to get a bunch of parts replaced yesterday and the shop is down in the southern part of the valley. That section is loaded with flocks of sheep and lambing has started which means the bald eagles are congregating to clean up still born lambs and such. I saw two of the big birds yesterday and about a zillion red tail hawks on the drive.

[jfs]

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[magnumwheelman]

I guess we’re spoiled… local lake must be on their migration route… see a pair a week or so, around here… they are often in the trees in our front yard… nice looking bird

[contender]

Nice picture of a majestic bird!

[zeus]

I love watching them in the winter here. I took a picture a couple years at a job site and there are 23 seatless in one pic. They always have some juvenile ones with them sitting around. The golden eagles share the area with the bald eagles. Pretty cool!

[blackmamba]

Several years ago in northeastern Missouri we watched a flock of eagles on the ice flows in the Mississippi River. We took photos from a parking lot, and finally one flew into a tree very close to us. Super Cool!

[45MAN]

MAGNIFICENT BIRDS, THEY DO NOT COME THIS FAR SOUTH (BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS), DOWN HERE WE HAVE CARA CARA's (THE MEXICAN EAGLE), IN DAYLIGHT THEY ARE THE QUICKEST TO A DYING/DEAD DEER. I HAVE SEEN THEM EATING THE EYES OUT OF A SICK/DYING BUT ALIVE DEER. BUZZARDS SEEM TO SMELL DEATH, CAR CARA's SEEM TO SENSE DYING AND DEAD.

[mhblaw]

Minnesota DNR has a camera on a nest near the Mississippi River in central MN. Fun to watch the mating, nesting, egg laying, incubating and raising the chicks until they fledge, usually in June. Not all chicks make it. Last winter the male disappeared and the female had to try and feed two growing chicks and herself. One chick did not survive.

[gcf]

Dec 23, 2022 8:52:10 GMT -5 45MAN said:

MAGNIFICENT BIRDS, THEY DO NOT COME THIS FAR SOUTH (BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS), DOWN HERE WE HAVE CARA CARA's (THE MEXICAN EAGLE), IN DAYLIGHT THEY ARE THE QUICKEST TO A DYING/DEAD DEER. I HAVE SEEN THEM EATING THE EYES OUT OF A SICK/DYING BUT ALIVE DEER. BUZZARDS SEEM TO SMELL DEATH, CAR CARA's SEEM TO SENSE DYING AND DEAD.

Very cool birds. Unique appearance makes them easy to identify. Crested Caracaras are seen frequently in the S TX brush country. We even (believe it or not) get the occasional fly by here in our central Corpus Christi neighborhood...

[gcf]

First baldy I ever saw (years ago), was scrounging through a McDonalds bag - middle of the street in Everett, WA.. Impressive bird, but sad to see.

[blacktailslayer]

Back in '88 to '90 I was in the Klamath Basin in southern Oregon enjoying epic waterfowl hunting on a nearly daily basis and the bald eagles were thick in the area. They were really neat to watch, I think they ate more ducks than we did.



Don D.

[leftysixgun]

A few years ago, me and a buddy got out one morning for some Coyote action. While on stand he got my attention and pointed upward. I looked and saw that I had called in 2 Bald eagles. Turns out we set up right by their nest. We went back to the truck and watched them and the nest for the next couple hours. Pretty sight to see.

[pattontime]

I used to live on the Mississippi River here in Minnesota, wish I still did, anyway, I got to see eagles a lot, we had a big old oak in the back yard that the eagles would sit it, but the
coolest thing I had ever seen was when I had most of my extended family out on the river in my pontoon boat, I looked up and an Eagle was flying by carrying either a snake or an eel,
I guess there are eels in the Mississppi or so I have been told, no idea which but it was quite a sight.