Look what I saw on the way to work...

[Texas Yellow Fever]

Sorry about the crappy pics all I had was a cell phone and he was about 25-30 yards away...I've never seen a bald eagle in Arkansas before and certainly never that close. Damn they are BIG!!!

 

[TREKER]

A Jackalope???

Good thing your didn't hit it...

 

[Prof]

Came around a bend in the intercostal waterway in Florida, while casting for Redfish, using just the trolling motor...and there were three mature bald eagles on a sandbar eating a dead fish...magnificent birds...and yes, huge!

These birds are one of the reasons I want to spend a few weeks in Alaska in the future.

 

[ntw0rk]

When I lived in Jacksonville, I rescued a baby bald eagle on the archery range! He was so young he didn't have his "Bald" head yet! I have pictures somewhere at my kids house. We used to see them quite a bit in Jax. Still see them occasionally down here in O'town.

They are beautiful birds! A sighting that is hard to forget!!

Nice shots Steve!!:rock::rock:

 

[Kevan]

Very cool, Steve!

 

[Silverback]

So, how did you cook it and how did it taste?

 

[eddie102870]

got one out the back door with a nest on a cell phone tower. truly magnificant bird. love watching them build they're nests.

 

[Prof]

So, how did you cook it and how did it taste?

uke:

 

[Texas Yellow Fever]

So, how did you cook it and how did it taste?

I smoked it, it tasted kinda like Whooping Crane only not so tough...

 

[Hilgee]

Came around a bend in the intercostal waterway in Florida, while casting for Redfish, using just the trolling motor...and there were three mature bald eagles on a sandbar eating a dead fish...magnificent birds...and yes, huge!

These birds are one of the reasons I want to spend a few weeks in Alaska in the future.

You don't have to go that far. Up around Sauk City, Wisconsin they get about 20 - 30 birds every winter. The water below the dam never freezes and it is pretty shallow and the eagles are there for about 5 weeks to feed.

 

[Prof]

You don't have to go that far. Up around Sauk City, Wisconsin they get about 20 - 30 birds every winter. The water below the dam never freezes and it is pretty shallow and the eagles are there for about 5 weeks to feed.

Thanks Paul, I will make that trip this year!

How is the build going? Speaking of soaring with eagles...

 

[iraqivet01]

That awsome.
They got taken off the endangered species list this last year. It something that I hope my grand children will be able to see also someday.

 

[Silverback]

Take a cruise up to Alaska.

My wife went a couple years ago and she has pictures of them somewhere. They were like god damn sea gulls. They were everywhere.

 

[Texas Yellow Fever]

Take a cruise up to Alaska.

My wife went a couple years ago and she has pictures of them somewhere. They were like god damn sea gulls. They were everywhere.

Lauri and I saw them like that in Canada on a fishing trip a few years ago, but man there was something about one sitting in my own pasture that really touched me...I guess I'm getting old...

 

[Prof]

They only show themselves to really good people

 

[Silverback]

They only show themselves to really good people

Well that explains why I don't see them.