Saw an EAGLE !

[RSKY]

According to the wildlife guy at church what we are seeing in Western KY are fish Eagles and not baldies. Says they call them fish buzzards cause they mainly eat dead fish. Guess that one we saw was a possum eagle.


Several years ago I went with a class of my wife's to a nature pen where a local guy kept and nursed injured animals. He was approved to do so by the state. His wife was the guide. She started hooting at this HUGE owl in a cage and it started hooting back. She explained that it was her buddy and always responded to her. She put a very thick padded elbow length leather glove on her left hand and reached in the cage to get him. He jumped over to her unprotected right arm and she dropped him. She put her right hand behind her back and got the owl on her left. I could see blood dripping as she talked to the kids. After they moved to the next cage and she put Hooter up I looked at her hand. The main talon had gone in at the base of her thumb and came out the back side.


Do not tick off an owl.

RSKY

 

[kcflhrc]

The Fish Eagle and Bald Eagle are similar, but nowhere near the same bird. The Fish Eagle comes from Africa and are pretty distinguishable from the Bald Eagle.

 

[tcreeley]

In the US we just have Bald Eagles and Golden Eagles. Bald eagles readily eat fish, great blue herons and carrion they find. The best place in my area to see them is the local slaughterhouse. They throw the carcasses and bones out back and feed the eagles and ravens - year round. Had 13 at one time, all ages. There is a pair that nests a mile from the house through the woods on the edge of a small lake in white pine. Snowmobilers icefishing will throw out fish for the eagles. The ravens will be a 100' away from the eagles- and never seen them bothered.