We were eating lunch and this Bald Eagle decided to join us.
Nice! :cool: We saw a super low-flying pair of bald eagles last week. They landed in a tree in a neighbor's property and were calling to each other. We see them pretty frequently around here. They like trout fishing too. :grin:
They are great to see in the wild and they are making a good comeback.
I often see one on my property, on the north 9 acres.
We only see them on our property once in a while. Usually they just come to check out the pond for fish.
One year I put the carcass of a deer to the lady of the pond. One came and spent a day feasting on it. Jim Altmiller
AMature bald eagle has spent the last three days, "feasting" quote from Jim, on a BIG old boar that totaled a car in front of my house. We moved it but he, or it, stayed for one more day.
Hogs are pretty solid, why didn't yous make sausage and bacon out of it?
We have a creek that runs full time and has fish, but I would think the Eagles would have a hard time since they are over arched by trees. No where to get a nice flight run on the water. Fish seem to be Bald Eagle's favorite food. But I have seen this one feasting on fresh road kill once. The turkey buzzards take care of the old road kill. :)
Eagles are cool. One of the reasons I think they're so cool is because of how rare they are around here. Ben Franklin didn't like the idea of using them as our national symbol because they are scavenges and I have seen our chowing down on a deer carcass here. For many years I thought that they were the opposite and would only eat what they caught live but I was wrong. Over the years, I took note on how clean and well groomed they are, and their colors are so beautiful...at least they were in all of those pictures...Then I took a trip to Alaska, where they are plentiful. So plentiful that they are like pigeons are in our big cities and The People aren't all that fond of them. Up close, they are not all that well preened and they are more reminiscent of a homeless person. A woman up there was actually penalized for feeding them. When they poop, it's not like a pigeon drop and the mess is pretty gross. But when I picture eagles in my mind, I don't envision those that I saw in Alaska, I envision the ones I've seen in pictures for all these years.
To see one here is rare. I?m sure that was a real treat Jim. It would have been for me.
I have threetraps on my place and we can catch 3=5 almost any time set the trap. The hogs we catch are butchered by a friend and he gives the meat to anyone that wants the meat.
This eagle was back again today. Instead of being on the roof, it was on the ground. I didn?t see it. I was at a friend?s house teaching him laser operations.
Jim Altmiller
The past several years there has been a pair of eagles raising young along the stretch of the river where my river camp/cabin is. When my uncle and I head upstream to check the trot lines in the morning, we see them perched on trees at several locations along the river. Some days we see both parents and two or three young ones. I still am amazed seeing them.
That eagle was here again this morning. He did a fly by right in front of the porch that we sit on every morning. Be nice if he decides to use our farm as his home base. I don?t mind sharing the pond fish with him, he can even take a free range rooster or three. We have way too many.
Jim Altmiller
A couple residents in our valley had cats lifted from farm fields by an Eagle.
I have heard that cats are small enough for them to take.
I once saw a golden eagle hit a jack rabbit from high in the sky. It looked like it was going to crash into the ground at 100 mph but opened it's wings just enough at the last second not to die. It hat the jack rabbit like a ton of bricks. I suppose if an eagle hit the cat like that, it would work. Otherwise I think the cat would put up too much of a fight.
My younger brother served in Adak, AK with the Navy and he told me that if a cat got out, it was quickly taken by an eagle.