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Topic: A few Eagles
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Bryan J
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posted February 11, 2006 03:25 PM
I told Crow Woman I would e-mail her some pics but thought maybe someone else might like these too. These were taken on the family farm.
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Jrbhunter
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posted February 11, 2006 05:18 PM
Great Pictures! Thanks.
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Leonard
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posted February 11, 2006 05:29 PM
Bryan, do you have a lake on your farm? Down here, every winter, we have a bunch of bald eagles that winter at Big Bear lake, in the local San Bernardino Mountains.
Good hunting. LB
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Locohead
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posted February 11, 2006 07:45 PM
Cool Pictures Bryan!!!!
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Bryan J
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posted February 11, 2006 07:51 PM
Leonard, there is no lake right on the farm but there is a waterfowl management area about 5 miles west as the eagle flies. They like to roost in the cottonwood trees after fishing out there.
It all started 20+ years ago, I was amazed to see 3 or 4 at a time then. Now the night these were taken I counted 41. The ones in the know say they are migrating back north. It is fun to have them around even if it is just for 4-6 weeks.
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Andy L
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posted February 12, 2006 05:04 AM
The Lake of the Ozarks is just down the road from me about ten miles. It is a power generation dam on the Osage River. Fish run through the generators all the time and float down the river or go through and live but are stunned and floating for a period of time.
I said all that to say this. The trees downstream from the dam look about like the pictures in the photo above every winter. There are literally hundreds hanging around that dam each winter. Pretty awesome sight.
We have some resident eagles and some that winter in other places around the area, meaning more everywhere around here in winter than summer. But nothing like below that dam.
Good pictures....
Andy
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Cal Taylor
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posted February 12, 2006 07:36 AM
If you guys could keep those buzzards down there, I would appreciate it. We have too many here already. If you could not let them migrate that would be wonderful! They eat too damn many antelope.
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Rich Higgins
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posted February 12, 2006 07:40 AM
Cal, do bald eagles kill antelope?
I thought only the golden eagle did.
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Cal Taylor
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posted February 12, 2006 08:12 AM
All eagles do Rich, and they kill lots of them. And they are damn hard on the sheep guys too. They are not to well loved in most places up here. A friend of mine lost 200 lambs one spring, there were about 6 or 8 eagles hanging around all sping. All he could do was watch. He filmed them, called in Fish and Wildlife, and they helped him watch them kill lambs. But that was all they would do.
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Andy L
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posted February 12, 2006 08:17 AM
There was one killed last year near here on a farm I hunt alot. You would have thought a high profile murder took place. Feds came in and retrieved the bullet and they put a fake red tail hawk up that would catch bullets and ran a sting. (shooting redtails is a big redneck outlaw thing around here) Finally they caught the guy. Dont know what they did, but they were making all kinds of claims as to what they were going to do.
I was actually a suspect for a little bit. Someone said they saw a tan Ford pickup leaving right after the eagle was killed. So happens thats what I drive. I know within reason it was just because they see me runnin in and out alot out there someone just said that.
Andy
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Leonard
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posted February 12, 2006 09:20 AM
It's the same thing, the world over. Always somebody like Sting telling native people not to slash and burn, destroy the rainforest, etc.
Some person from the midwest lecturing the Japanese on killing whales. Another "do gooder" in Florida campaining to protect prairie dogs in South Dakota. In other words, people with no dog in the fight telling other people what to do.
So, I have no economic interest in livestock, and greatly prefer what I consider to be the true "National Bird" the Golden Eagle over the bald eagle. But, it's just like wolves in Yellowstone or Montana or even Arizona. Always somebody poking their nose into other people's business.
I think we spend way too much time and money on politically correct "animal" policies. The amount of money donated to the protection of exotic snow leopards or baby harp seals could be used to feed thousands of needy American children, much less, babies in Somalia or some other place where they spit on Americans and drag bodies through the streets.
In other words, I'm a little concerned about priorities...now I will get off the soap box.
Good hunting. LB
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Cal Taylor
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posted February 12, 2006 09:35 AM
Well said, Leonard. I really have little economic interest in eagles either, they do kill antelope, but I'm not going to declare war on them, I couldn't afford it. All they really are is coyotes that can fly.
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Lonny
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posted February 12, 2006 08:56 PM
The biggest killer of bighorn lambs around here besides disease is eagles. I know several ranchers who take the law into their own hands when it comes to having eagles around calving and lambing areas.
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pup
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posted February 13, 2006 07:51 AM
Spoke with a rancher in New Mexico, no love lost there either, he wished that Ben Franklin would of won out with the turkey.
Great Pics Bryan!
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Crow Woman
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posted February 13, 2006 10:33 AM
Thank You Bryan!!!!!
I know most of ya'll have your reasons, but it's rare back here to catch an eagle's view. Absolutely breathtaking treat for me!
Thanks again ![[Wink]](wink.gif) Much enjoyed ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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