Posted on 05/17/2021 4:04:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Earlier this year, a ravenous raptor stalked and killed a seagull
You can keep 6 pinks if you need dog food.
Big Dogs are good
The first time I saw a bald eagle was when one grabbed a dead squirrel off a road without having to land.
I live on the coast of Florida and I now normally see bald eagles several times a year.
I believe they are considered fish hawks but they aren’t really picky.
I have hawks regularly. The local hawks want to eat snakes. I’ve only seen one squirrel who was a hawk’s meal.
Eagles beware! You have white heads, you are predatory and you are definitely meat eaters. Who says you are no longer endangered.
In my neighborhood, several neighbors have posted on Next Door that their ankle biters had been pinned down by hawks/owls.
The eagles are very welcomed to the yapper dogs in the neighborhood. A few years ago they snagged a rabbit right out the window in the back yard. Wish they’d now go for the yapper dogs that won’t shut up.
I think Bald Eagle are mainly scavengers.
I see them a lot here in the cascade foot hills.
The surprise for me this Saturday was seeing a couple of Turkey Vultures buzzing the yard.
I didn’t t know that they inhabit in this area.
I just saw red headed hawks...had to look it up.
They are scavengers too.
I see red hawks often and on rare occasion I see great horned owls.
If a bald eagle buzzes the yard, I usually hear them first, their wings really swoosh.
I seem to recall a story a few years ago about people watching a Bald Eagle cam who were upset that the eagles had killed a cat and brought it to their nest to eat.
lol. thanks funny.
Eagles are predators but lovely. That is their job.
Do not put small animals outside that are not native to the area. Native animals understand the danger. Non native animals are just lunch.
Yes, Sitka is crawling with eagles. Rather neat to see them on the deck railing in the morning when I’d visit my parents there.
Coyotes here in N Florida got all the feral cats (and the occasional small dog). Now all the rats are back.
I once watched about 20 bald eagles playing tug of war with a big octopus who was trapped in a tide pool. They took a few chunks but the incoming tide saved him. Spasski Bay, Chichagof Island, SE Alaska 1981.
Where I live they’re about as common as crows.
Years ago when I was shrimp fishing, we were getting a fair amount of bycatch and we must’ve had 70 or 80 following us, picking up the ‘floaters’...the fish with engorged bladders that couldn’t dive below the surface. They’re pretty good at grabbing them off the surface of the water and eating on the wing. They also liked to mug seagulls and take their fish away.
Earlier this year, a ravenous raptor stalked and killed a seagull in front of shocked onlookers at a busy Vancouver golf course.
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I wish I’d been there. I would’ve loved to have seen that. I’m sure they have their place in the food chain, but seagulls are a menace.
Yeah, around here they feast on road kill deer carcasses, it’s literally a buffet.
Couple years ago one came out of the tall grass attempting to take off right in front of me. I had no chance to avoid it, good thing for me I have a heavy duty brush guard that has survived two deer collisions. Last I saw was a feathery mess rolling behind me in the mirror.
Let’s make the turkey the national bird. It looks better, doesn’t eat road kills and makes a far better dinner.
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