Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: 4dog on January 31, 2014, 02:49:42 pm
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first one in almost 6 years,welch park. somerville texas..no pic..was an awesome sight!!
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i would love to see one some day.
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I saw several bald eagles perched on old snags while driving back and forth to a job site at the Lassen National Park Head Quarters in 2011. Also a couple over Shasta lake. Keep your eyes peeled, there are not tons, but CA's bald eagle population is on the rise.
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heck jordo I see them all the time up here , guess they don't like city life :laugh:
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See them all the time here in NW MN. They have gone furthur south for the winter, as all of the lakes have frozen. They will be back come spring....Nice site to see though..
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See them often up here in the summer and fall.
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bout 12 yrs ago we had a mess of eagles at lake somerville...used to watch catch fish..very cool...someone showed me where tje nest was...it was fricken huuuuge..like 15 feet across...watched the eaglets test their wings...then they were just gone didnt see another for about 6 yrs...so im thinkong every 6 yrs they come around...pretty awesome all the way around.
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NW. Penna. has lots of them, I know where 4 nest are within 12 miles.
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Seen one on the farm this past summer first one I ever seen here.
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I have seen some here in Wheeling, WV, and there used to be a nest where I grew up about 30 minutes south of Wheeling.
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We have two down the road there awesome to see :)
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bout 12 yrs ago we had a mess of eagles at lake somerville...used to watch catch fish..very cool...someone showed me where tje nest was...it was fricken huuuuge..like 15 feet across...watched the eaglets test their wings...then they were just gone didnt see another for about 6 yrs...so im thinkong every 6 yrs they come around...pretty awesome all the way around.
Where I have been camping for the past 40 years there is a nest that has been occupied every year. Obviously not the same birds. Of course we have lots of eagles but my point is that if there is enough eagles the nests will almost always have occupants. Once your eagle population builds there will be eagles there every year. There are eagle tree laws in place around here that make it illegal to cut them down. Even on private property. Just recently a guy in town was fined $10,000 for cutting down an eagle tree that was blocking his view. It was on his property. People around here love eagles.
Don
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Been seeing quite a few here in Northern Arizona.
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I've had two sightings along the river in the same spot this past week or so. Its very cool to see them in the wild.
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Without a doubt they are the most beautiful of vultures....erm, I mean eagles.
We get several that hole up here in the Black Hills in the winter months. Once the lakes start to ice up, they start hanging out in snags overlooking the places people like to ice fish. I can't tell you how many trout I have lost to them thievin' vult...erm, eagles. I have had them swing down at high speed and hit the trout so close to me that I could hear the talons rake the ice.
I have never seen a juvenile bald eagle doing this, they have all been white headed/tailed adults.
I was a kid back in 1972 when they passed the Endangered Species Act. I remember hoping that I would get to see one before they became extinct. I see one a week anymore. Can't help but think that is a good thing.
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We have lots here on the big river, really around this time of year/
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JDub,, why ya gotta get all proper and scientific,,killjoy!...lol...on a serious note i have heard recently that since they have made thos great comeback..hunts might actually be opening up for them...anyone else hear this?? would be a shame,cant kill a turkey vulture but ya might be able to kill a bald one?
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JDub,, why ya gotta get all proper and scientific,,killjoy!...lol...on a serious note i have heard recently that since they have made thos great comeback..hunts might actually be opening up for them...anyone else hear this?? would be a shame,cant kill a turkey vulture but ya might be able to kill a bald one?
The Northern Arapaho in Wyoming got upset when one of their tribal members was prosecuted for killing eagles. So, they sued the federal government for license to kill some eagles legally. The Northern Arapaho share a reservation with a Shoshone group and those two tribes aren't whatcha call the closest of friends. So the Feds gave the Arapaho permission to hunt eagles, knowing the Shoshone belief that killing an eagle was a high crime and spiritual bad juju. The Shoshone would not permit eagle hunting on the reservation, and it was still illegal to hunt eagles elsewhere. That's kinda where it sits now.
No, there is no season on eagles.
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good
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Started seeing a few back in the 90s on lake Ray Roberts in North Texas. I see them now fairly regular.
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4dog you need to look up decorah Iowa eagle cam this spring and watch live video of the nest. Very cool real time video. They are awesome to to see. I see them almost everyday on my drive to school and back.
Tracy
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Sometimes the off-season video from the Decorah eagle nest is just as exciting. Forty feet up in a tree and there is a colony of mice that lives in the nest. They feed on the scraps that the eagles left behind! Someone told me they actually saw field mice in with the adults and half grown young. Apparently mice are about the only thing a bald vult...erm, eagle will not stoop to eat!
There are a load of nest cams online, barn owls, kestrels, great blue herons, etc. The one I follow closely is the Cornel Lab of Ornithology's webcam on the grounds of Cornel University. They have a pair of redtail hawks that nest on a light structure over one of the parking lots. Last year during a particularly nasty storm of rain and hail the male redtail approached the female protecting the eggs. He lay over top of her and spread his wings to shelter her.
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why would the great hunter stoop to mice when he can steal, I mean liberate trout from you jdub
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LOL!
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I live in Wabasha, MN, home of the National Eagle Center. There are eagles here all year long but this time of year they are everywhere as the Mississippi River stays open in the winter. I guess I am spoiled as I see eagles every day on my drive to and from work along the Mississippi River. I usually loose count of how many I see this time of the year.
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They are fairly common up here. Saw one 2 weeks ago which is unusual for this time of year
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I just saw some Seahawks, does that count? >:D
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a few years ago I had one that would come down and grab the mullet I was using for bait.So there I am with an eagle on the end of my line,luckily I was able to pull the mullet away without snagging the bird.15 minutes later it grabbed another one ,that was it I moved let him catch his own bait
Bone
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i seen them every once and awhile up here, gold eagles are much more common i see a couple of them every week or so.
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Here is a couple my daughter snapped a pic of a few hundred yards from my house hope you enjoy. Ed
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that pic is a keeper!!! gonna steal it for my phone...hope she dont mind. O:)
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you don't have to steal it 4dog, glad you enjoyed it. Ed