Bald Eagles!

[Doug683]

A park 20 minutes from my house where I do a lot of walking has had nesting pair for last few years. Just noticed a new bald eagle nest about 3 miles from my house! So cool to see when I catch them at tree driving by. Their nest is about 100yds from road.

So how many of you see or have bald eagle nests nearby?

 

[Billy Goat]

I have one on corner of one of the farms.

Things are huge, like 5-6 foot in diameter.

It's cool til lambs are missing, and when I'm going through them and they have these scars over their backs. Guess by 20-25# they aren't as much of a target.

 

[displacedtexan]

There's 3-4 within 20 minutes of me that I know.

 

[grfox92]

So many it's not even cool anymore. They are literally everywhere.

Here are 6 of them in the trees just outside the dead animal pit at the dump.

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[KsRancher]

They have been building a nest for 3yrs at the place my dad lives. This winter was the first time they stayed the winter actually nested.

 

[TWoch]

Local game warden wishes they would delist them because they’re spending so much time responding to “incidents”

 

[Wheels]

Protected vultures is all they are.

 

[king402]

Lots during the winter and then mostly leave for the summer.

 

[CorbLand]

Quite a few around here. I see a ton scouting for ducks and there’s a few nest along the river I fish.

 

[Thinkingman]

My neighborhood east of Seattle had tons of them.
The local lake got stocked with trout every year and the eagles would perch in the trees behind the fishing dock and wait for a trout to get released by someone fishing then fly by checking the fishing lines, and on the second pass, do a National Geographic looking take on the surface. It was only like 20' away.
Here in Montana we have Balds and Goldens.
Goldens make Balds look like sparrows.

 

[Rich M]

We get a lot down here in winter, and plenty hang around year round. Sometimes they snatch our dead ducks up. No complaints - neat stuff having an eagle grab a dead duck off the water and keep on keeping on without missing a beat.

If I ever see then chasing an osprey with a fish, will stop and watch, amazing how they can fly like that.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

We have quite a few of them SE of Seattle, see them most every day. Lots of nests along the Cedar River.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Protected vultures is all they are.

Haha! Up in Northern Minnesota where I hunt they call them vultures. I was confused at first when they were clearly eagles, and the farmers said “same thing”.

Wolves are also “big coyotes” up there to the farmers.

 

[Sooner]

When I was a kid, we knew where two always nested. That was the only two we'd ever see. You can't go outside without seeing them now.

 

[Loper]

We get a lot down here in winter, and plenty hang around year round. Sometimes they snatch our dead ducks up. No complaints - neat stuff having an eagle grab a dead duck off the water and keep on keeping on without missing a beat.

If I ever see then chasing an osprey with a fish, will stop and watch, amazing how they can fly like that.

I’ve had an eagle grab a dead duck off the water once while hunting. It was pretty cool to watch.

About a year ago my wife and daughter ran in the house yelling to get my attention. They said they saw two eagles fighting each other in flight and one had something in its talons. They thought it may have been a squirrel and they said one of the birds dropped what it had and pointed in a certain direction. The next morning on my run I was on my way back and saw a fish on the side of the road near the curb. I’t was in the same general vicinity that my wife and daughter said they saw one of the birds drop what it had it its talons. I have no doubt it was dropped by the eagle and wasn’t a squirrel they saw.

 

[KurtR]

Used to only see a few here in Sodak now they are all over

 

[mattmann]

When trout fishing on the White River I get the opportunity to see them dive in and hit fish a lot. It’s so fun to watch. For some reason, I have always pictured them sounding different than what they sound in real life lol


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[Burnsie]

They are thick in the Mississippi river bluffs area between Minnesota and Wisc. Fishing camps up in Canada have them all over the place as well. Fillet a bunch of Walley and throw the remains in a pile on the shore - they will be gone in a minute from either the eagles or the seagulls.

 

[flathead#2]

They're even down here on the Gulf Coast.
Pretty sure an Immature one pinned down one of my Roosters
back a few months ago.
All the chickens were screaming bloody murder and I ran out
and this huge thing had one of my roosters pinned to the ground.
I had to get within 5/6-ft before he flew off.
Absolutely enormous.
Rooster somehow survived.

 

[Fatcamp]

They close our favorite campground in Fall because of them.