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Mert Bargenquast
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posted February 28, 2014 06:39 AM
I have been told by good friends that don't BS seeing an eagle take a red fox and eating them. Two different occasions in the last several weeks. Don't they know the season is closed! I wish that we could get them to eat the mangy coyotes.
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Leonard
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posted February 28, 2014 08:11 AM
I'm pretty sure a Golden Eagle will take a pup coyote every chance it gets. Adults, not sure?
Good hunting. El Bee
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El Guapo
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posted February 28, 2014 03:10 PM
I have never seen them take a loose fox but it is highly probable. I know for a fact that they will kill and eat one in a trap in no time. And I can rarely snare a red fox that doesn't get eaten. I have seen them kill full grown antelope with ease, so I can't imagine a red fox is much trouble for them.
Good to see you around Mert.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted February 28, 2014 08:08 PM
About 5 years ago, a guy that lives four blocks east of me and on the edge of town called me all excited and asked me to come to his house. He had a red fox for me and told me how he'd seen a bald eagle fly across a field east of his house with this fox in its talons. Along the south border is a tree line and he said he first saw the eagle as it barely cleared those trees. he said the bird seemed to struggle with the weight of the fox, landing about 400 yards out into the open field. Immediately, a raft of crows set upon him as he fed on the fox's carcass and he ran them off and salvaged the fox for me. Lot of stitching, but I got $20 for it. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Same year, Matt (as you may recall) had been using a rather unorthodox method of calling coyotes where we worked a stretch of the Smoky Hill River about 6 miles long where we had permission and access of both sides of the water. We would travel east down the river on ATV's setting up on the top side of high banks calling coyotes out onto the sandbars on the opposite side, shoot them, then go back and retrieve them when done calling. It was cold as hell and there was snow on the ground so the tended to keep well. Matt went out by himself one Saturday and called me at work, pissed off. he'd punched a beautiful pale coyote and by the time he got around there to pick it up, four bald eagles has totally eaten the thing. LOL
And yes, we have balds in Kansas. They migrate through in November and on their way back north in February. As long as the reservoirs or rivers are open, it isn't hard to see anywhere from 3-10 a day, and on a couple lakes, you can see as many as 40. The most I've seen in one place was 70.
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