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Posted on 04/29/2016 8:09:22 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
It was inevitable, from the moment video cameras went up over Pittsburgh area bald eagle nests, that viewers would eventually see something disturbing.
On Tuesday, eagles at the nest site in the Hays neighborhood brought a young cat into the nest to feed their two eaglets.
"After reviewing the footage, we believe the cat was dead when it was brought to the nest," said Rachel Handel, spokeswoman for the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania. "We don't know if it was a pet or feral. It's impossible to know if the cat was killed by the eagle or was a roadkill, but eagles are opportunists and just as apt to take something that's already dead as something that's alive to feed their young."
On regional eagle chat boards, some were squeamish or disturbed that the scene was live-streamed on a popular viewing site. Others speculated about the meal's identity until Handel turned the event into a learning moment.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Indeed the only cats I ever saw in China town was on a stick.
don’t you mean “Yappie the Chihuahua”?
I use a .220 Swift. Nothing to pick up.
If they’re close enough I use an air rifle so the horses don’t spook. Otherwise it’s my wonderful Remington .308!
[[Eagles eating cat upsets nest viewers]]
Woudl they feel better if it was a baby fur seal?
Perfect example of how liberals love a false vision of “sanitized” Nature. The real thing is brutal, ugly, and deathly indifferent.
Did they use a can of soda to wash that down?
Here, there is a vet specializing in birds next to a wings place:
You mean the eagles haven’t watched Bambi 50x?
Throw a little sauce on it and call it kung pao...
you mean eagle eat meat shocking LMFAO @ viewers
thanks for posting
dont be so racist LOL
No, ‘cause mice are yucky don’t ya know...
I think one of the coolest things I ever saw hunting was when a golden eagle attempted to kill a Coues whitetail fawn. I was hunting in the Chircahua Mts. watching a group of three does and a fawn going up a hillside when this dark streak came from above and the deer scattered. The eagle, completely unsuccessful - this time - spread his/her wings and looked around as if to say, “Where the hell did they go?!”
OK you win :-)
Awe the cat owner.... who can’t realize that they are just another animal and part of the food chain. I guess they’ll call for a hunt on these eagles now to protect fluffy...
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I’ll never forget the first time I saw that sequence. Amazing.
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