Does anybody know eagles?

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

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

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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!

[lifelinksplit]

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.

[jono]

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

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!

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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

[stuckathuntermtn]

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

Get out of my cab!

[old goat]

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

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.

[riser4]

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.

[KQ]

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.

Don't get around much do you?

[iceman]

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.

yeesh.

[TurxSki]

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?

[JayPowHound]

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..

[that dude who did that thing]

Ospreys are water birds. This was far inland.

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.

[GeezerSteve]

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?

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

[Tippster]

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.

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

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

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.

[Svengali]

Benny, It's the Russians!

[TheSilverSurfer]

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.

[buttahflake]

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.

[Benny Profane]

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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[Garth Bimble]

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.

[babybear]

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

[babybear]

let me try this again

[GeezerSteve]

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.

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."

[Alaskan Rover]

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.

But I think he meant the Philadelphia Eagles team. 😂

[Alaskan Rover]

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