Eagles

[Hay Dude]

The Eagles like to feast on fresh kill, healthy or injured snakes, voles, mice, etc.

All I gotta do is turn on the Discbine and all the hunters come running. Foxes, Coyotes, hawks, eagles, buzzards, etc.

 

[Citydude]

Heres a few of Bald Eagles while I was haying. They do kind of look right at you. Sorry about picture quality, I-phone was zoomed and tractor cab glass is dirty. :laughing:

Nice looking hay crop!

 

[Hay Dude]

Nice looking hay crop!

Thanks! :thumbsup:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Great story. Yes, if you have had an Eagle look you in the eye at close range you won't forget it. Reminds me of the old cartoon drawing of the Eagle zooming in for the kill on the mouse. He's staring death in the eyes and flipping him off.

I recall that cartoon; saw it as a poster somewhere...maybe in a bar...the caption was something like " The last futile act of defiance".

 

[Hay Dude]

Interesting from Ben Franklin:

“ Franklin’s lament of the choice of bald eagle comes from a letter he wrote in 1784. He was remarking upon the medal of the Society of the Cincinnati, which representatives of the new nation were taking to France to bestow upon those who had helped in the American Revolution. The medals depicted a bald eagle that some people thought looked more like a turkey. The suggestion sent Franklin into a thorough drubbing of the eagle’s merits as a symbol. He called it “a Bird of bad moral Character” that “does not get his Living honestly.” “

You may have seen him perch’d on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk [Osprey]; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
Sick burn, Franklin! Stealing food out of a baby’s mouth! Got anything else?

Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District.

 

[ovrszd]

I believe it's the unique appearance of the bird rather than it's moral character that got it selected.

Similar to the Bluebird which is the Missouri State Bird. Nothing unique about it at all except it's plumage.

Which woman did you most intently study on the old TV show Beverly Hillbillies?

 

[Ford850]

I believe it's the unique appearance of the bird rather than it's moral character that got it selected.

Similar to the Bluebird which is the Missouri State Bird. Nothing unique about it at all except it's plumage.

Which woman did you most intently study on the old TV show Beverly Hillbillies?

Granny?

Ohio's state bird : Cardinal. Same reason I'm sure.

 

[MossRoad]

I believe it's the unique appearance of the bird rather than it's moral character that got it selected.

Similar to the Bluebird which is the Missouri State Bird. Nothing unique about it at all except it's plumage.

Which woman did you most intently study on the old TV show Beverly Hillbillies?

Cousin Pearl

Bea Benaderet - Wikipedia

 

[Hay Dude]

I believe it's the unique appearance of the bird rather than it's moral character that got it selected.

Similar to the Bluebird which is the Missouri State Bird. Nothing unique about it at all except it's plumage.

Which woman did you most intently study on the old TV show Beverly Hillbillies?

I guess Benjamin Franklin judges birds not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

 

[ovrszd]

I guess Benjamin Franklin judges birds not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Yep...

 

[Frankenkubota]

I believe it's the unique appearance of the bird rather than it's moral character that got it selected.

Similar to the Bluebird which is the Missouri State Bird. Nothing unique about it at all except it's plumage.

Which woman did you most intently study on the old TV show Beverly Hillbillies?

I've got a crush on granny. She immediately goes to the nuclear option. I read that Jed and Miss Hathaway were not friends. She ran for political office years later and Jed took out a derogatory full page ad in the paper where she was running. She lost.

 

[Ford850]

I've got a crush on granny. She immediately goes to the nuclear option. I read that Jed and Miss Hathaway were not friends. She ran for political office years later and Jed took out a derogatory full page ad in the paper where she was running. She lost.

Don't mess with Big Oil.

 

[Ford850]

Ovrszd - do you have eagle nests nearby? Around here they nest near clear shallow lakes and rivers the most. The nests can be seen atop the tallest trees in those areas. But now that the eagle population is growing I'm seeing mores nests in fringe areas.

 

[Hay Dude]

Ovrszd - do you have eagle nests nearby? Around here they nest near clear shallow lakes and rivers the most. The nests can be seen atop the tallest trees in those areas. But now that the eagle population is growing I'm seeing mores nests in fringe areas.

Same here. Now I have them swooping through my front yard, an I am 2 miles from the river

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I see them here flying over my place, but I've never seen one around when I'm haybineing. The only thing that follows the haybine, is the chithawks......eeeer, seaguls.

Speaking of chithawks, a friend was bining in a big field, going round and round, and on the last pass, out runs a hen pheasant with a bunch of little, young ones. The chithawks swooped down and one by one took every one of those young pheasants away!!

Now my friend carries a 12 ga. in the cab of his tractor and uses it!!

SR

 

[ovrszd]

Ovrszd - do you have eagle nests nearby? Around here they nest near clear shallow lakes and rivers the most. The nests can be seen atop the tallest trees in those areas. But now that the eagle population is growing I'm seeing mores nests in fringe areas.

I know of one nest North of me 3 miles along a Creek about 2/3 way to the top of a very large Cottonwood tree. I've watched these Eagles come to feed in the mornings and they come from the SW. Next Spring before trees leaf I'm going to go for a hike in the large timber down there. It's also along a Creek. I'm guessing there's a nest site there.

 

[ovrszd]

Same here. Now I have them swooping through my front yard, an I am 2 miles from the river

One adult among this group likes to sit in the large cottonwood at one of my ponds. I've not saw it attempt this, but I'm guessing it's fishing. Since the pond iced over it hasn't been there. The pond is 100yds from our house. Flies thru the yard to get there.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Saw an eagle near work last week.

Also Saw a hawk parachute down onto something in the highway medium, was cool to see it hold its wings out and float down.

 

[cqaigy2]

Saw an eagle near work last week.

Also Saw a hawk parachute down onto something in the highway medium, was cool to see it hold its wings out and float down.

Reminds me of watching a kestrel work the snakes over in the prairie.

 

[cqaigy2]

Saw an eagle near work last week.

Also Saw a hawk parachute down onto something in the highway medium, was cool to see it hold its wings out and float down.

Reminds me of watching a kestrel work the snakes over in the prairie.