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Two stunning Eagles to start the new year off right...
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Taken this morning looking out my back door...
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Outhaul
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Taken this morning looking out my back door...
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Outstanding picture.
HALF eagles?
Wow, that's great, where in the US?
Happy Healthy New Year everybody.....including the Eagles
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Nice! Saw one flying over the road near our home yesterday. Never get tired of seeing those majestic birds.
I'm in New England, Tom; Massachusetts. My backyard backs up on the Merrimack River.
Great photo, thanks for posting.
We see an eagle or two from time to time fishing on our lake here in central NC. I love watching the ducks take emergency cover under the docks.
Seems like the eagles are doing nicely these days.
Now if we could only get rid of 99% of those pesky Canada geese. Still protected by the goobermint and now a health nuisance. Most of the dang things hang around all year at my place. Nothing but flying poop factories IMHO. Too bad we can't teach the eagles to eat geese.
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Great post !!!
Beautiful birds. Great pics.
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Nice double eagle in great condition
Probably in the tallest tree with a view of the river...
Quarter eagle.
Right on the bank. Their branch overhangs the river.
Double eagle
The recovery of the bald eagle after the banning of DDT is one of the great stories of environmental protection.
NIce photo!
Nice!
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I agree that DDT deserved to be banned. No good for anything. As bad or worse than Chlordane.
However, I do not think that the bald eagle was ever in danger. At it's worse I know, personally, of at least 13 nesting pairs in Colorado, 23 in Wyoming and thousands more in Canada/Alaska. The alarm was sounded properly and in time to reverse the decline in the lower 48. The same will be said for the weed killer Roundup. Just no huge alarms as it's not affecting animals just humans.
bob
While building a house up here in New Hampshire I witnessed a bald eagle swoop down and grab a loan from a lake just a few feet from where we were working. The loon was too heavy for the eagle so it swam with the loon in it's talons to the shore. The two on them made one heck of a racket as all this was going on. The neighbors came out and four of us on the work crew watched as nature unfolded. After getting it to land the eagle started to pluck the feathers off before feasting. All the neighbors were upset about losing the loon. There were only 3 mating pair on the lake at that time. It was remarkable to watch
Great pics. They are a treasure. Thank you for your service!!
By the early 1960's there were fewer than 500 nesting pairs of bald eagles recorded in the United States. They were threatened with extinction, due to DDT, habitat destruction, and shooting. Banning DDT was the first step toward recovery, the second was passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, the eagle was added to the list in 1978. Thanks to protections, it was removed from the list in 2007, when about 10,000 nesting pairs were recorded. (Source: US Fish and Wildlife Service). I am thankful that our national symbol continues to flourish in the wild as well as on our coinage.
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Beautiful!
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I live in northern Illinois and was at my brother's house and while we were talking 1 flew by at a couple of hundred feet I'm guessing. We stopped talking to watch this beautiful bird fly around. First one I've ever seen in the wild.
Later, Paul.
Have you seen this video of hungry eagles???
Later, Paul.
We have a few of them hear in The Woodlands, TX and because of them, all building and construction on this particular island has been halted for several years. Never thought I would see one of those in the wild but when I did one day fishing from my kayak was amazed at the majesty.
That is a fantastic picture Bob...Thanks for posting it. There are many, many Eagles in Washington State... used to see them all the time when I lived there. Now, living in the Catskill Mountains, NYS... I see them often, but not as common as out west. Beautiful birds... Cheers, RickO
And to think Ben Franklin wanted turkeys to be our national bird. Very great man, but wrong with that idea
Naw, Ben just wanted a brother.:)
Too bad for the 10’s of millions of people in 3rd world countries that die from malaria since it was banned world wide. But hey, at least we got an eagle.
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Great pic.
We have nesting eagles up at the north end of the lake
Sitting on my deck here at the top of the hill I love to watch them ride the summer wind currents up to us while they effortlessly search for prey.
DDT took a human toll as well. And there were other treatments for malaria.
You know the best treatment for malaria? Not to get it in the first place.
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Awesome! The last ones I saw in the wild were on a canoe trip on the Potomac River near the confluence with the Shenandoah. Beautiful sight...
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Went trout fishing with a friend this weekend in SE Minnesota. Saw at least 2-3 dozen bald eagles, and probably over half were juveniles, which is a good sign. A couple weeks ago, I spotted about 8 maybe a mile from the Mall of America. Always nice to see.
A slight correction: it was removed from the Endangered Species list in 1995, then removed from the Threatened Species list in 2007.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle
It's kind of a scavenger, rather than a top predator, but it's still great to look at (like black/white cats with "boots").
The golden eagle is larger and more of a top predator, so it might have been a better choice for a national symbol.
However, the bald eagle is native only to North America, while the golden eagle range includes Europe and Asia, so that may be the primary reason.
And "looking good" may be a friendlier criteria than dominating other animals!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_eagle
They used DDT on sage brush in Wyoming? There's lots of Golden Eagles out there too.
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Good point. I guess they were never endangered.
bob