Seeing a bald eagle

kimrose said:
Did you photograph these eagles, Silver?? They are amazing!
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Yes and thanks.

Even when most people see them, they're generally perched or flying from place to place.

What's really incredible is to watch them chase each other over some food one of them might have, because the aerial acrobatics they perform are awesome. They change directions so abruptly, they're hard to follow and when one of them drops their food, its not uncommon to see another snatch the food right out of the sky as it falls. Very cool!

One of my favorite photographs is the fourth one where the two eagles are flying straight up. The one on the bottom is reaching trying to steal the fish from the one on the top who's screaming. Got extremely lucky on that one.
 
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Living in Boise/the NW you get to run into a Bald Eagle from time to time. In fact, the Birds of Prey (an international non-profit organization founded in 1970 that conserves endangered raptors around the world) is located in S. Boise. My street dead ends into a field the city has grown around and at the end is a fairly tall dead tree. There are always giant hawks and such hanging out in that tree. I think they love the field there with the mice. When we got our puppy several years ago we were worried about them finding him running around the yard. haha You never know!
 
Slammed0 said:
Living in Boise/the NW you get to run into a Bald Eagle from time to time. In fact, the Birds of Prey (an international non-profit organization founded in 1970 that conserves endangered raptors around the world) is located in S. Boise. My street dead ends into a field the city has grown around and at the end is a fairly tall dead tree. There are always giant hawks and such hanging out in that tree. I think they love the field there with the mice. When we got our puppy several years ago we were worried about them finding him running around the yard. haha You never know!
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I went through the same thing when my dog was a pup. Used to have a red tailed hawk hanging out in the trees in my back yard, so I never left him alone until he was about 6 months.
 
Denim Chicken said:
Tell me about it. They had a GPS tracker on this one for a while, but it fell off and they lost it for a few years. Too bad to rediscover him in this condition.
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That piece of filth wasn't caught, either.

I would have put 20 pieces of buckshot into him if I was out there and saw that. I value a beautiful, majestic American bird over that turd.
 
Over the last decade or so we have had a few Bald Eagles here in Southeast Texas. There were at least two near our camp on Toledo Bend reservoir for which we were able to track down their nest and one here in the Golden Triangle area that I have heard about. Unfortunately one of the ones on Toledo Bend built its nest in a dead tree that eventually the top fell out of it.
 
Silver Surfer said:
Yes and thanks.

Even when most people see them, they're generally perched or flying from place to place.

What's really incredible is to watch them chase each other over some food one of them might have, because the aerial acrobatics they perform are awesome. They change directions so abruptly, they're hard to follow and when one of them drops their food, its not uncommon to see another snatch the food right out of the sky as it falls. Very cool!

One of my favorite photographs is the fourth one where the two eagles are flying straight up. The one on the bottom is reaching trying to steal the fish from the one on the top who's screaming. Got extremely lucky on that one.
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I've been out in the woods hunting and a huge great horned owl swooped in overhead and tried to bomb the crouch/ fork of a giant white oak tree about 20'+ above ground with the hind legs and tail of a fox squirrel (stashing it for later) well it didn't stick and fell/ rolled down almost at my feet,,,LOL!
Back in 98 or 99 there were reports on the local news(Tucson) of a pair of bald eagle sightings, about two weeks later I look up in the sky one morning unlocking my truck to head in to work and one of them was circling right overhead, it was pretty cool,later on it was reported they'd both been electrocuted building a nest I believe
 
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