Eagles

[ovrszd]

My Son plants a food plot each year. I prefer roadkill. Retrieved a Deer carcass from the highway near me and staked it down in my CRP field with a game camera. Just added a second carcass yesterday. In a week the birds in the daytime and Coyotes at night left only hide and bare bones of the first one.

I've got a Eagle nest in a fairly large timber about two miles south of my farm. There are three young Eagles frequenting the food plot plus two adults. I'm wondering if they are family? I watch them come from the South each morning just after daylight.

 

[ovrszd]

There seems to be a pecking order. They all know each other. The two adults are the more patient feeders. But then, as you can see, they are considerably smaller.

I read once the Eagles get their white feathers around five years old. They start losing body mass at that time.

 

[oosik]

Amazing pictures. Doesn't look like the carcass will be "bait" too much longer. Need to find more road kill.

 

[ovrszd]

I really like this picture. If you were a small animal and saw this coming you'd not be having a good day.....

 

[ovrszd]

These last two give you an idea of size. The small birds are Crows.

 

[ovrszd]

Although the young Eagles are much bigger, I prefer the adults. Beautiful birds.

 

[ovrszd]

Here's a couple pics of a Red Tail Hawk. Again for bird size comparison.

 

[Citydude]

I really like this picture. If you were a small animal and saw this coming you'd not be having a good day.....



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That pic really gives the full perspective of the wing span. Great pic!

 

[ovrszd]

Amazing pictures. Doesn't look like the carcass will be "bait" too much longer. Need to find more road kill.

Yeah, that was the first one. Put out a second one yesterday.

 

[ovrszd]

That pic really gives the full perspective of the wing span. Great pic!

Thank you. It's pure luck with a Game Camera. I've got 500 pics so far. Several videos too. Coyotes are the "Night Shift". I'll post up some pics of them.

 

[cqaigy2]

Very good! Thanks for posting!!

 

[Xfaxman]

 

[Thomas]

Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup:

No waste in mother nature world.

Had single eagle years back fed well for weeks.

 

[MossRoad]

The pictures with the crows really illustrate the size of the eagles.

Thanks for posting. :thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

Interesting about the sizes. While juvenile bald eagles are larger in size than adults, it's because their feathers are longer than adults. They weigh considerably less than the adults. Also, adult female bald eagles are about 1/3 larger than adult male bald eagles.

Since we've been seeing more and more of them around here in the past decade, I've been reading up on them.

 

[buck12]

Great pictures. I spend a lot of times outdoors and have seen near things but I have only seen one Bald Eagle in the wild.

 

[lilranch2001]

I have seen 5 bald eagles in a group, about 150 foot off of a county road, and at first assumed they were turkey buzzards, only two of them were adults with white plumage. I hope to see more of them, as Moss stated they are getting much more populous in Indiana as of recent times

 

[MossRoad]

I have seen 5 bald eagles in a group, about 150 foot off of a county road, and at first assumed they were turkey buzzards, only two of them were adults with white plumage. I hope to see more of them, as Moss stated they are getting much more populous in Indiana as of recent times

Well, we've got plenty of roadkill, don't we!

This time of year, it's pretty common to see the deer ribs sticking up in the bare fields near the roads. I'd guess any deer killed near a river might now get a bald visitor.

 

[TractorGuy]

Great pictures!

I didn't realize Eagles would feed on dead spoils like buzzards.

 

[oosik]

Almost every year I will get a pair of otters visit the lake. They have a blast sliding down the steep, snow covered slopes and out onto the ice. They also enjoy eating the bass that are in the lake. They use the open holes( springs on this end of the lake) to dive in and catch bass. They get a pile of bass out on the lake - then they sit back and relax - enjoying their catch. The ravens, crows and magpies will be the first to see this "feast". Their squawking and horseplay will, eventually, attract a bald eagle. The eagle will swoop down and drive off the other birds. The eagle grabs one bass and flies out to the center of the lake. Gets him away from the pesky otters trying to retrieve their one bass.

It ends up being a three ring circus. The other birds trying to get at the one bass the eagle has purloined. The eagle finally has had enough of all this - picks up the bass and flies off to parts unknown. The other birds will NEVER fool directly with the otters catch. Somewhere in the past they have learned a valuable lesson.