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More Bald Eagles Spotted In Harlem!
gothamist.com ^ | Feb. 9, 2010 | Jen Carlson

Posted on 02/09/2010 4:31:43 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

To be honest, the photo of the bald eagle we posted last week near Fairway was just kind of depressing. There he was, pondering existence over icy waters, looking lonely, and actually balding. But the blogger who spotted that one, spotted two more this week on an ice flow in Harlem; "a huge female adult eagle finishing up a fish as another adult and juvenile begged for scraps!" If you want to see one of these in real life, they're being spotted up and down Riverside Park... just watch out for the packs of coyotes.


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: baldeagles; nyc; wildlife

1 posted on 02/09/2010 4:31:43 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

We use to have the Fordham Baldies in the Bronx when I wuz a kid in the 50s and 60s.


2 posted on 02/09/2010 4:35:04 PM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Spotted one here in Florida yesterday.


3 posted on 02/09/2010 4:36:00 PM PST by diverteach (D.C. has become Jonestown)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There was one perched in a tree for about 3 hours next to our church here in Brentwood Sunday. We’re about 12 miles from downtown Nashville.


4 posted on 02/09/2010 4:43:34 PM PST by hometoroost (I am not a crook, I did not have sex with that woman, and I am not an ideologue.)
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To: diverteach

Actually there are a lot more Bald Eagles than is generally known.

There a lot of them that look like normal eagles, but they are doing comb-overs.


5 posted on 02/09/2010 4:45:03 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: diverteach

I seen them nesting out near Albany, GA. Another Bald Eagle about flew into my windshield while I was driving my company van in another part of Georgia.


6 posted on 02/09/2010 4:45:37 PM PST by Roger_Wildcat
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Raptors were far from uncommon in Harlem when I worked there in the 90’s. I once saw a female merlin sitting on a pipe in the basement of a building at the corner of 133 and Lenox.


7 posted on 02/09/2010 4:45:49 PM PST by Roccus (ABLE DANGER?????...................What's an ABLE DANGER???)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I see them regularly flying by the Pentagon near 14th St. Bridge on my way into work. I often wonder how many other commuters see them. I’ve also seen them flying over the Capitol and the Library of Congress dome.


8 posted on 02/09/2010 4:46:09 PM PST by KingLudd
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To: Free ThinkerNY

hey have a breeding pair here in northwest Jersey..they used to have a web cam on the nest to watch the babies cannot remem ber the web site, do not know if it is still up...


9 posted on 02/09/2010 4:46:41 PM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

One of the most spectacular things that I have witnessed was a bald eagle fishing next to our boat on a lake in California. The eagle would circle and then we would get tired of watching it and the next thing was a loud bang. It was the eagle slapping its wings on the surface of the water.

Dad said that was to stun the fish that was near enough to the surface for the eagle to catch. About half the time the bird would come up out of the water with a fish.

As the eagle lifted off the water, it shook itself just as a wet dog would. Spinning off the excess water and it was not just a little bit of water either. About 15 feet off the surface the shake and rolling took place, it dropped a tiny bit in altitude and then began to climb back into the sky.

It was the impact sound on the water and the shake that I’ll never forget.


10 posted on 02/09/2010 4:50:50 PM PST by Battle Axe (Repent, for the coming of the Lord is nigh.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

11 posted on 02/09/2010 4:52:04 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Roccus

Ooops. Just checked Google earth, that was 140 and Lennox.


12 posted on 02/09/2010 4:53:25 PM PST by Roccus (ABLE DANGER?????...................What's an ABLE DANGER???)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

there’s a pair with a giant nest along the river outside of higgensport, oh. (about an hour away from cincinnati).


13 posted on 02/09/2010 4:53:32 PM PST by robomatik (III %)
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Bald eagle, Higginsport, Brown County, April 4, 2005.


14 posted on 02/09/2010 5:24:11 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

At first I was thinking Charlie Rangle.


15 posted on 02/09/2010 5:30:16 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Last couple years I’ve been seeing bald eagles everywhere. Even in corn fields far from water...feeding on rabbits/squirrels etc.


16 posted on 02/09/2010 5:32:35 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: Battle Axe

Cool.

I bet the water adds weight...makes it harder to take off.


17 posted on 02/09/2010 5:34:32 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: JoeProBono

aaaw! isn’t he cute. actually the picture doesn’t do the nest justice. it’s the size of a v.w. bug now.


18 posted on 02/09/2010 6:14:26 PM PST by robomatik (III %)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It was great until the Manhattan coyote got hold of it.

19 posted on 02/09/2010 6:47:02 PM PST by Defiant (But for Reagan, we would be socialist already. But for the Bushes, we would be rid of socialism.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
my dtr spotted one today and it flew over our house twice...thought it was going for some carrion because there was a bunch of magpies but we searched and didn't find any...

eagles are glorious...

eagles are not pristine though.they'll feed on a dead deer just as easily as a coyote would.

20 posted on 02/09/2010 6:50:31 PM PST by cherry
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