Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Eagle at the home place

Walked out the other morning to toss some trash in the dumpster. Silly me, I was looking at the oil drips from my old tractor on the gravel drive now that the snow and ice is gone, should have been looking up.

All of a sudden something flies off the power pole, heads towards the vacant lot. Jeebus, look at that big white tail! And it's got something in its talons. Mostly we see goldens here, a few baldies going back and forth at altitude between water bodies.

Landed on an unused pole on the vacant lot, close to 100 yds away, gave me time to go get the real camera with a decent lens on it. I "stalked" across the street to behind a tree, cut the distance in half and got a couple of decent shots. This one, if you can zoom on it, shows meat on its bill. I toss scratch out for the quail and pinyon jays, and those dang invasive does come for the hand outs too. Under the pole where it flew from were some feathers that looked suspiciously like a dove.

I do miss seeing so many of them on the refuges over there.

Nice shot.

Thanks,

the amount of wildlife/game around here "forced" me to buy a decent camera and lens setup a couple of years back.

We've got lots of them around here. Counted 12 of them one day while driving along Cannonsville reservoir and have watched them scoop trout out of the river.

You can have mine.... was watching the osprey harass the eagle this morning. You can have the osprey, too, no charge..........

Coulda been a nice ....uh, never mind.

Hide your ducks, dogs, chickens, geese, cats.....

And fawns.

Turkeys whether big or small.

Cousin has a nesting pair on his place. Turkey hunting has sucked since these white headed buzzards set up camp.


Kind of fitting they are our national bird, always looking for a hand out, opportunistic scavengers, nothing more.

I know where that's comin' from.

I don't have a fish pond, or I'd be thinkin' like you.

We worry about the littlest whippet when we see the goldens around.

Chickens, meh. My girls need replaced, egg production has stopped this winter. Already told them if they don't start back up now that the days are getting longer, they're going in the pot to make some chicken and dumplins.

Sonsabitching Bald Eagles!

I shot a double on teal yesterday morning. Both ducks feet up. We had a bald eagle 🦅 hanging in a Douglas Fir across from us all morning, watching, making runs over any ducks we downed.

I’m wading out to grab the first teal closet to shore, eagle takes that as a his cue to “get him some food” it swoops in, wings open, swept back, both legs stretched out with them big yellow footed claws and rakes my second teal into his clutches.

Fly’s back to his tree and devours my bird.

What an ass-hole. 🖕🏾

🦫

Fuggin thieves, eh?

Used to watch them swoop in and take fish we released from the ospreys. Some would say that's smarts.

Or acting like a bunch of darkies.

Let somebody else do the work then come in and steal it.

Too bad they outlawed DDT and the killing of raptors. I understand we need a few but to leave them uncontrolled is just phu.uckin dumb.

We've got a breeding pair here. They're a welcome sight.

Have had a similar view out our back door this winter. Should be quite a few showing up here in late Feb with the waterfowl

If it helps any, people who breed roosters for the cockpit generally stake em out individually across an open space, each with their own little doghouse-looking thing. About as perfect a setup for drawing raptors as you could imagine. Those pendejos shotgun hawks all the time, I had a kid show me on his phone the bald eagle they shot, him, his dad and his brother holding out the wings.

Sorta similar, we used to have a poster on here from Canada who bred homing pigeons, he said those guys shot and poisoned peregrines regularly.

very cool, I see them from time to time around here but not often enough that it doesn't excite me

It goes both ways. When I was still stocking private ponds, had a guy that bought a load every year. His joy in life was watching the osprey catch the trout from the pond in front of his house.

Takes all kinds. But the money was green. Needless to say, not a local .

I'm 68 and no Eagles in my area my whole life until about 3 years ago. Actually, nobody alive in my area recalls one.

Now we have a few. Kind of exciting actually, even though most folks don't have much use for them.

Just something new & different here. Bears too.

Nice picture boss. I'm guessing its the Eurasian collared dove that are invasive down there too? That's what we've got going on up here they're pretty damn stupid not surprised the eagle nabbed one and good on him.

I grew up in a place with very few eagles, like next to none it was a big deal to see one. Then I spent 20 odd years by the ocean and it was the other side of the coin. They've got some nasty traits that can be hard to watch but I kill things to eat too so I can't complain. They rule the skies pretty much.

Nice shot Geno!
I get a hawk in the yard on occasion. They love to hit the collard doves under the bird feeder. Makes a good show when he hits them in mid air and the feathers fly.