HOLD ON!!!!
Posted on 06/14/2005 4:22:48 PM PDT by SmithL
KETCHIKAN -- A bald eagle crashed through a window of a home and landed in the living room, scattering broken glass, feathers and a salmon carcass across the floor. Homeowner Jean Stack heard the crash and initially wondered if someone had thrown a dead fish through the window.
"I stopped in my tracks and thought, 'Oh my gosh," she said.
But then she heard her neighbor, Kurt Haskin, yelling. He saw the whole thing from his deck.
Haskin had been drinking coffee and watching eagles from his deck shortly before 6 a.m. Monday. He said one eagle was on his roof, and three more were in a nearby tree. Another pair occupied a tree across an alley.
"They were fighting, thrashing around; there were leaves and limbs (shaking)," Haskin said. "This was all within 50 feet of me, and I was thinking this was pretty cool."
Then one eagle swooped out of the nearby tree, up past Haskin's head, around the eagle on the roof and back behind the tree, said Haskin.
"I didn't notice it was packing a fish when it swooped over me," he said.
The eagle re-emerged and bore down on Stack's bay window, which is about 15 feet off the ground.
"It just grenaded that window," Haskin said. "The window didn't even slow it down."
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Now PETA will have to call for extermination of the eagles, because fish are intelligent beings and the eagles didn't do an, um, environmental impact study....
/smirk
!!!!!!
I hate it when that happens.
ROFL!!!
Fish, after all, are sentient beings who have a right to live unmolested...;-D
HOLD ON!!!!
Poor training IMO. The bird should have taken the fish to the kitchen.
Belly-up and out of commission, for sure.
You certainly seem to be succeeding
Wow, talk about talons in the brain!
His reach exceeded his grasp.
That insurance claim will be one for the books.
The FAA should revoke that eagle's license.
LOL!!!
Thanks!
"I stopped in my tracks and thought, 'Oh my gosh," she said."
Or something like that.
:)
OH MY GOSH!
Where'd you GET that from???
LOL!!!!!!
I've had it a while - thought it was an amazing shot.
The original file name was "friends to the end".
Mother Nature and her creatures - wild.
;-)
Some years ago, I was working outside in front of my house when I heard a fairly large "Splat!" out in front of me. I looked around to see what caused the noise and then noticed a good sized fish of about three pounds laying in the road. Now, the nearest water was the Delaware river and that was a good 1/4 mile away so I was baffled. Bizarre stuff.
Then, I heard a screeching noise above me and looked up. There were two Red Tailed Hawks circling and watching me. I imagine they had been fighting over the fish when it "got away".
Not something I wanted to experience 1st hand!
I worked with non-releasable raptors and many of them were non-releasable because of permanent damages resulting from collisions with vehicles.
Fresh salmon with free delivery. Where's the beef?
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