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Amtrak train kills bald eagle eating dead deer on tracks near Aberdeen
The Baltimore Sun ^ | 02/04/2011 | The Associated Press

Posted on 02/04/2011 11:34:00 AM PST by speciallybland

A bald eagle was killed by a train Thursday morning while enjoying breakfast on a stretch of tracks near Abderdeen, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Craig Koppie, an eagle coordinator with the federal agency, said the rare encounter happened in a flash. The bird was eating a deer carcass about 8:30 a.m. as an Amtrak train headed to Washington approached. An engineer spotted the bird and blasted his horn, but the eagle took off too slowly and was hit.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: amtrak; baldeagle; baldeagles; deer; eagle; eagles; train; trains
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To: Melas; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Abderdeen sounds Arabic to you? No wonder you take offense to so many things so easily. Aberdeen is Gaelic.

So the medieval Muslim war chiefs Abder Rahman III and Salah al-Deen (aka Saladin) were actually Gaelic?

61 posted on 02/04/2011 1:08:16 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: speciallybland

Maybe the eagle thought it was a Chinese missile


62 posted on 02/04/2011 1:08:30 PM PST by JRios1968 (If the Left's ideas were so good, their ex-presidents wouldn't need to sell them.)
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To: speciallybland

Q:What’s the last thing that went through the eagle’s mind?
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A: The train.


63 posted on 02/04/2011 1:09:14 PM PST by JRios1968 (If the Left's ideas were so good, their ex-presidents wouldn't need to sell them.)
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To: Fiji Hill
So the medieval Muslim war chiefs Abder Rahman III and Salah al-Deen (aka Saladin) were actually Gaelic?

Why are you trying to pick a stupid argument?

64 posted on 02/04/2011 1:32:00 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR to pimp your blog!!!)
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To: speciallybland

Socialist GovTrain kills a bald eagle.
Wow, what a powerful metaphor...


65 posted on 02/04/2011 1:36:05 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: swain_forkbeard

Perhaps it’s the hometown of Lil’ Abder and Daisy Mae.


66 posted on 02/04/2011 1:36:43 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: speciallybland

Yawn.


67 posted on 02/04/2011 1:36:46 PM PST by diamond6 (Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
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To: speciallybland

Bald eagles: Good at reading deer tracks. Not so good at reading train tracks.


68 posted on 02/04/2011 1:42:22 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Fiji Hill

Wow, you found similar sylabbles in different languages. Amazing. Well, actually aber isn’t all that similar to abder, but oh well. Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, and a big one I might add my linguistically challenged FRiend. The Aberdeens in America derive their names thusly.


69 posted on 02/04/2011 2:11:04 PM PST by Melas
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; Fiji Hill

It’s really bad when others start to notice Fiji. Just admit when you’re wrong.


70 posted on 02/04/2011 2:12:21 PM PST by Melas
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To: Melas
:) From Wikipedia:

Aberdeen (i /æbərˈdiːn/; Scots: Aiberdeen listen (help·info); Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dheathain [ˈopər ˈʝɛhɪn]) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 29th most populous city. It has an official population estimate of 210,400.[2] Nicknames include the Granite City, the Grey City and the Silver City with the Golden Sands. During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, whose mica deposits sparkle like silver.[3]

The city has a long, sandy coastline. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, other nicknames have been the Oil Capital of Europe or the Energy Capital of Europe.[4] The area around Aberdeen has been settled since at least 8,000 years ago,[5] when prehistoric villages lay around the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don. In 1319, Aberdeen received Royal Burgh status from Robert the Bruce,[citation needed] transforming the city economically. The city's two universities, the University of Aberdeen, founded in 1495, and the Robert Gordon University, which was awarded university status in 1992, make Aberdeen the educational centre of the north-east. The traditional industries of fishing, paper-making, shipbuilding, and textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen's seaport. Aberdeen Heliport is one of the busiest commercial heliports in the world[6] and the seaport is the largest in the north-east of Scotland.[7]

In January 2011 Aberdeen was named one of five cities which could help the UK climb its way out of the recession because of its high levels of employment, abundance of skilled workers, and an increase in the average weekly earnings. Aberdeen City and Shire was dubbed in the report by officials as the "one to watch" with its rapid growing economy, size and oil reserves.[citation needed]

Aberdeen has won the Britain in Bloom competition a record-breaking ten times,[8] and hosts the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, a major international event which attracts up to 1000 of the most talented young performing arts companies.

71 posted on 02/04/2011 2:18:37 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Fiji Hill
Sounds Arabic.

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Perhaps to the unschooled.

72 posted on 02/04/2011 2:21:50 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Watch bald eagles nest.

http://www.wvec.com/marketplace/microsite-content/eagle-cam.html

Excellent video shots. 1st egg was laid yesterday. It is something peaceful to see between reading the painful news.

Regards,


73 posted on 02/04/2011 2:25:33 PM PST by Tomato lover (Jesus is Lord of all)
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To: Tomato lover
Beautiful. I've seen many bald eagles while fishing in Maine. They're amazing.

Thanks!

74 posted on 02/04/2011 2:30:13 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: speciallybland
"High Speed Rail Plans Will Usher In Birdpocalypse"


Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

75 posted on 02/04/2011 2:35:40 PM PST by The Comedian (It's 3am all over the planet, and nobody's been answering the phone since 2008.)
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To: speciallybland

More nonsense. It was an accident.

Now,who will get prosecuted?


76 posted on 02/04/2011 3:02:55 PM PST by FreeDeerHawk
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To: speciallybland
Could've been worse. Could've been the Texas Eagle.
77 posted on 02/04/2011 3:28:36 PM PST by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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To: swain_forkbeard

I just moved to Aberdeen. My son thought he saw a bald eagle the other day. Apparently he was right.


78 posted on 02/04/2011 3:34:01 PM PST by cyclotic (Boy Scouts-Developing Leaders in a World of Followers.)
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To: speciallybland

Next time use a thawed eagle.


79 posted on 02/04/2011 4:05:11 PM PST by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: speciallybland; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; ...

I hope the engineer went back to take the bird home, cook him, and eat him. I’m sure Bald Eagle makes a tasty meal. Yum.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


80 posted on 02/04/2011 8:04:50 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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