Bald Eagles

[pasolucy]

The Bald Eagles are back. Of course it is lambing time and that is when they come around. I saw one in a tree at the bottom of our pasture. Ran in to get the binoculars to make sure it was an Eagle. It was so ran back in the house to get the video camera so I could zoom in on it and of course as soon as I am trying to focus, he flys off. Do not know if I would have gotten a good picture through the fog or not, but the camera is charging so next time I see him I can try again

[PASOFAN]

That is great!! I see eagles alot.. Especially at the mouth of the Brule river on Lk Superior. I startled a grown family of 5 bald eagles and 3 swooped at me!! I had my camera and got pic of two! They have been the group that has that territory for 10yrs! I love eagles. :D

[Pasomom]

We have Baldies in Florida but I am sure not as plentiful as other places. I always feel privledged to see such a beautiful bird, that stands for so much!

[CarolU]

They winter just below me too. As many as 24 have been counted in the big trees around Rush Lake. They don't summer here, but do winter. I've tried to sneak up on them to get pictures, but they have better eyes then I have big lenses. LOL

Aren't they totally awesome???

They had on the news tonight that they have relocated 13 bighorn sheep to the mountains here...a total of 50 will be reintroduced. TOO COOL!!!

It was a good day today.

[Terri]

It is lambing time in December? Really? Would and Eagle take a lamb? Who is that I hear laughing at my stupid questions?

[pasolucy]

I am not laughing. We live in grass seed country and the sheep run on the fields in the winter. They do start lambing any day now and I feel so sorry for them when the rain in beating down and they are so tiny. They lamb early to get them as grown as they can before they have to go off of the fields for the grass to grow for seed. It is a mystery to me where all of the sheep go because there are hundreds of them around here. An Eagle could take a brand new lamb, but only a newborn, they grow so fast that they could not get them much later but a newborn lamb could weigh less than a good sized salmon which they pluck out of the river. They do go after the afterbirth in the fields. They may take a newborn sickly lamb also that is not doing well.

[Lynn]

Bald eagles can weigh 7-15 pounds and have a wingspan of 6-8 feet. They can only lift up to half their weight. One time in school we had two eagles brought into class. One was a bald eagle that only had one wing and the other was a Golden that someone had shot. Remembering how big they were I was kinda glad that we don't have many eagles in IN when I was voluntering at Sorin Hawk. Those beaks are big. It was bad enough dealing with hawks and falcons.

[CarolU]

Sounds like a neat job Lynn. I'd love to do raptor rehab (and YES run an old horse home too ;-) )

I have rescued two goldens. One was shot and had a broken wing. I found it when we were bringing our cows down for the winter. We caught it in our windbreakers and YES tied it on the horse for the trip down the mountain. Boxed it and took it to Hogle Zoo where the rehab center was. I never found out its fate.

The second one was rescued at work (broke its wing on a guide wire for a power pole) and brought to me. I was the Animal Caretaker at the lab at the time and did all the ferel animals too. Took it to the same rehab center where a vet from California volunteered his time to repair the wing. A year later the bird was brought back out to the west desert and released where it would be safe. It was all on the news, including the surgery, and I was very glad to be a part of it.

Neat job though...

BTW - our barn owl is still a nightly guest. We made a house for him, so hopefully he/she will find a mate and make a home here. We'll see.

[appyday]

That owl was so beautiful if you can Id love to see more pics of him.

[Brigitte]

Cool! We have some eagles here too. Well they look like them anyway. I enjoy watching them fly, pretty neat 8-)

[PASOFAN]

We had an eagle that took our little goat one yr! My little sis was about the size of the goat so she wasnt allowed out w/out someone else.. She was 3 I think at the time.. Then we had a asprey move it and saw some pretty horrific bird fights! but the eagle won! This was about 15yrs ago, that same eagle found a mate and they had offspring, the family of 5 I was talking about in my last post! It is so neat to know they are still there, we have since moved but they still nest in the area only 1/2mile from where we lived..

I too love owls! Pics would be great!!

Down near red wing, mn in winter, hundreded of bald eagles go nest on the MissIssIppi river banks, you drive by and loose count of them in the trees!

Man that reminds me I had better get down there to take pics!! :D

[Terri]

Wow that is pretty interesting. We don't have eagles right around here, but there are some out in the western part of the state. We have Osprey and many red tails. The conservation people would love to lure an eagle into living around here. They build big nesting poles for them, which the osprey move into. One of the guys on the conservation commission has set it as a goal to get a moose to move back in. Unfortunately Eastern Mass. has been so developed we have lost much of the wildlife that was originally indigenous to the area.

[Lynn]

Pasofan If they moved in 15 years ago they will be around for a while. A wild eagle can live up to 40 years. Horses are my favorite animal but wolves and raptors tye for second.

[PASOFAN]

yep, that is how I know it is the same family there! They are VERY dominant for domain and that original eagle 15yrs ago I hope is still head of that family! So beautiful they are..

I love wolves too! Saw only 1 in northern WI, near home.. Lots of bears, foxes and deer... :D