Does anybody know eagles?

I had a ravens nest and an eagles nest within a couple hundred feet of my last house, they were constantly harassing each other. The ravens were great at mimicking sounds, There was one who had the phone ring down pat, He also liked the beep when I'd adjust the satellite dish, but the best was the CO detector in the van. One day I heard it going off so I removed the battery, a little while later I heard it again and checked the van, the battery was out and it was silent, 5 minutes later I heard it again, This time I saw the raven sitting in the tree making the noise.

I forgot [ ]Steve was our resident ornithologist.

You sure it wasn’t just a seagull over a trash dump Benny?

BMills lives not so far from Hinckley, where hundreds of people congregate each March to greet the spring and watch buzzards (turkey vultures) roost

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Originally Posted by OldSteve

BMills lives not so far from Hinckley, where hundreds of people congregate each March to greet the spring and watch buzzards (turkey vultures) roost

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Been almost 20 years since NE Ohio was last my home but i know exactly what you’re talking about. I remember checking out the turkey vultures roost over in Hinkley and the tons of Blue Herrons off Bath Rd in CVNP.

Some pretty cool birding in NE OH, I can definitely see the appeal. I guess last year or so a small flock of wayward pelicans made their summer home off the shores of Lake Erie by the mouth of the Cuyahoga.

Pretty cool.

I started my birding life in NE Ohio when I attended KSU. Spring warbler migration was the highlight.

Saw a couple of sparrows chasing and harrassing a golden eagle in the Grand Canyon this summer. Pretty comical to see them being so aggressive towards a much larger bird, although the eagle probably didn't think it was funny.

A murder of crows going after a hawk is always entertaining.

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All I know is I hate the fucking Eagles, man.

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Did you have a really rough night?

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epic. laughing! thx!

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Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy

Surfing at my regular spot in Washington, a bald eagle dropped a salmon out of the air about 20 feet in front of me. I paddled like hell and actually tailed this stunned salmon and brought it in. It was a paddle in, and a 5 minute walk back to the truck and that eagle was just circling me the whole way, like "wtf asshole!".

From then on that bird would soar around my truck when I showed up, and track me while I hiked in, then just sit on this one tall tree and watch me surf....I anthropomorphized a degree of bitterness and resentment to this behavior. I don't think that's an entirely unreasonable interpretation.

I'm not going to lie, it was a curious blend of emotions. I mean, it was a spectacular thing and a great story; but then it got kind of creepy with this huge bird taking a very strange and personal interest in me....and it was a very consistent thing, like every time I went it was the same thing with this bird. It was weirdly creepy being alone out there wondering if this bird was going to swoop down and claw my eyes out or something.

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Next time you surf, you should stop at Fred Meyer on the way and buy your bird friend a salmon. It is the holidays after all.

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Originally Posted by flowing alpy

Mt Baker local are sure to let it be known that those
big birds flying around Shuksan are ravens not crows.

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You know what the real difference is between Ravens and crows eh?

a crows feather has 4 pinions and a ravens feather has 5 pinions

https://www.facebook.com/99likesin/v...0317376697672/

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on the first clip the eagle got clean away but on the second clip he didnt have enough lift , but then the goat starts running away with the eagle on its back which is generating lift ... very close


so the difference between a crow and a raven ... is a matter of a pinion

Badumph!

See a shitoad of baldies here in MT and quite a few goldens. Do spend quite a bit of time on the river and in the woods though. I think I mentioned it in a different thread but last summer I was in the boat on a lake and watched a rather large bald eagle swoop down between 2 trees and snatch a baby fox out of a den and kill it while the mom ran around deciding whether to try and rescue baby or stay and protect the den. Pretty fucking intense for a stoned afternoon of fishing. I was able to row to within 30 ft of where it all was going down. Also live on the river and regularly see a resident baldie fishing. Not really a "birder" but eagles and hawks are pretty fucking cool.

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All I know is I hate the fucking Eagles, man.

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FTW. Hope your recovery goes well!

I live among lots of both and have been known to look twice at an eagle or an osprey without being sure at a great distance. I feel a little better about it now. Thanks Benny!

10 yrs ago we were paddling back to prince rupert from Kitkatla, low on food and I notice this eagle has a salmon he is trying to eat on a log so I paddle over to steal it from him but its a really bad place to try and eat dinner and the salmon slipped off the log under the water

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All I know is I hate the fucking Eagles, man.

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Get out of my cab!

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Hotel California is good esp the guitar solo, the rest is anywhere from meh to awful. They've messed up a lot of other people's good songs--Old 55 for starters. You must really hate them to rise from your sick bed just to post that.

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Hotel California is good esp the guitar solo, the rest is anywhere from meh to awful. They've messed up a lot of other people's good songs--Old 55 for starters. You must really hate them to rise from your sick bed just to post that.

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Hotel California is good esp the guitar solo, the rest is anywhere from meh to awful. They've messed up a lot of other people's good songs--Old 55 for starters. You must really hate them to rise from your sick bed just to post that.

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Don't get around much do you? ;)

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Hotel California is good esp the guitar solo, the rest is anywhere from meh to awful. They've messed up a lot of other people's good songs--Old 55 for starters. You must really hate them to rise from your sick bed just to post that.

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yeesh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlmvtAHhnc

Getting used to the birds here in northern Nevada.
Had a small Coopers hawk eating a sparrow in our yard. Yellow eyes.

Also a bigger one around.
2 or 3 sometimes.
Not sure what they are.
Perch high on posts. Not a turkey vulture.
Small beak for a raptor.
Brown back, beige chest. Sturdy looking?

The past few summers we have regulalry seen bald eagles flying over our lake spot in Wakefield NH.

Today I saw one over Rt 3 near Nashua NH.

Cool birds, and exciting to see the population growing.

Pretty unmistakable from my experiences..

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Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Ospreys are water birds. This was far inland.

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When you're this misinformed it is best to stop typing, and just wait to learn. There's water in the mountains.

Judging the size of a bird in flight can be very difficult. I see bald eagles frequently, goldens on occasion, and osprey when I go looking for them. To judge size you first have to judge distance, and unless you spend a lot of time looking at birds in flight that alone is tricky. In flat light, in an environment you're not that familiar with, tryign to judge the distance, size, color of a distant bird? Yeah, the novice bird watcher should not be blamed for being uncertain what he saw.

Osprey have light colored bodies, so that is not likely what you saw. Which does leave bald eagles as the most likely sighting you had. Hope you enjoyed the view. Getting up close and personal with any large bird is cool, but golden eagles are just about hte coolest close avian encounter I've had.

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Also a bigger one around.
2 or 3 sometimes.
Not sure what they are.
Perch high on posts. Not a turkey vulture.
Small beak for a raptor.
Brown back, beige chest. Sturdy looking?

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Very likely a buteo. The most common buteo in N.A. is the Red-tailed Hawk.

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Same thing in NY and most of America, i.e., in the U.S. "buzzard" is colloquial for Turkey Vulture. In the Old World, "buzzard" refers to any of several buteos.

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BMills lives not so far from Hinckley, where hundreds of people congregate each March to greet the spring and watch buzzards (turkey vultures) roost

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Very likely a buteo. The most common buteo in N.A. is the Red-tailed Hawk.

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So weird, since the European Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) and Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) look nothing alike and the Vulture isn't even a Buteo. Hawks are closer to Buzzards than any Vulture.

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About twenty years ago I was walking in the woods about to blaze one up when all of a sudden I was face to face with a baldy. She was sitting on a stump and when I saw her I was only a few feet away. She spread her wings and I about shit my pants. At least a seven foot wingspan. I stopped immediately and tried to exude calm energy. She settled down and I backed up a few feet to sit on a stump. I smoked a huge bowl while hanging out with her for about half an hour. I said my goodbyes and left her to continue sitting on the stump.

This was one of those life experiences that I will never forget.

Yesterday as I was driving home from the shop in Ludlow, VT. I saw an absolutely huge Bald! Flying 30 feet off the deck. Opened my window and pointed at it. Bunch of folks pulled over to check it out. More and more common back here in New England. I was really pumped to see it.

I once watched a Nature show on PBS that featured one of the biggest Eagles in the world that lived in the Amazon and snatched monkeys out of trees. Bad ass.

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I once watched a Nature show on PBS that featured one of the biggest Eagles in the world that lived in the Amazon and snatched monkeys out of trees. Bad ass.

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That would be the Harpy.

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we saw a Harpy at the Belize zoo- so insanely huge. It was a female too who tend to be larger
wish we had something in there for context but she was biig
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So weird, since the European Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) and Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) look nothing alike and the Vulture isn't even a Buteo. Hawks are closer to Buzzards than any Vulture.

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Correct on the first point. As I said, in Eurasia, a buzzard is any of several buteo species. In America, "buzzard" refers to a Turkey Vulture. "Hawk" is a loose broad term used to refer to buteos, accipters, falcons (e.g., Sparrow Hawk), harriers (e.g., Marsh Hawk) and even a few non-raptors (e.g., Nighthawk, a goatsucker). ETA: Cf. European "elk" = American "moose." ETA2: In archaic use, accipiters were considered the only "true hawks."

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Hotel California is good esp the guitar solo, the rest is anywhere from meh to awful. They've messed up a lot of other people's good songs--Old 55 for starters. You must really hate them to rise from your sick bed just to post that.

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But I think he meant the Philadelphia Eagles team. 😂

Not a baldie....but DAMN...that is one lucky kid.

And this three-toed sloth was not as lucky as the above kid...dinner for that Harpy eagle!

The vid is obviously a composite of a few vids, but the flight itself is actual footage. I think that small sloth would be the Pygmy sloth of Panama...a very rare species. I hope those harpies don't eat too many of them.

Sloths are actually a regular food source of the Harpy according to one article.

holy moly the videos been intense! cant do the sloth one

We were at the vets ofc recently and saw an ad for these little shield vests warn on a dog's back
http://www.raptorshield.com/
which I laughed at at first but seems like a decent idea
we see bald eagles almost daily here in the summer and I bet they would love my plump little terrier

our neighborhood is actually a dope bird zone- we have a creek running through the middle of it and they kept a lot of open area -we have an osprey nest platform, lots of owls.
living in this house for the past few yrs has definitely gotten me more psyched about birding
http://www.rafterj.org/gallery-2/ngg...reat-gray-owl/

Bald Eagles are fairly common from the Canadian border to the Lower Hudson Valley. The morning train from Albany to NYC usually allows travelers to spot 3 or 4 along the Hudson.

Ravens are also common in the general area.

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But I think he meant the Philadelphia Eagles team. ��

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Oh, ok. Too bad about Wentz. This could have been their year.

I was in Juneau once. Bald eagles on all the lamp posts. They're like pigeons there. I don't think there are any in Philadelphia, but then there are no lions in Detroit and no real cowboys in Dallas.

Recently read someone say what a disaster it was banning DDT--because it's harder to control mosquitoes. Fuck them (whoever said that and mosquitoes both).

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Oh, ok. Too bad about Wentz. This could have been their year.

I was in Juneau once. Bald eagles on all the lamp posts. They're like pigeons there. I don't think there are any in Philadelphia, but then there are no lions in Detroit and no real cowboys in Dallas.

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This is like the blind leading the blind.