Posted on 02/09/2010 4:31:43 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
To be honest, the photo of the bald eagle we posted last week near Fairway was just kind of depressing. There he was, pondering existence over icy waters, looking lonely, and actually balding. But the blogger who spotted that one, spotted two more this week on an ice flow in Harlem; "a huge female adult eagle finishing up a fish as another adult and juvenile begged for scraps!" If you want to see one of these in real life, they're being spotted up and down Riverside Park... just watch out for the packs of coyotes.
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We use to have the Fordham Baldies in the Bronx when I wuz a kid in the 50s and 60s.
Spotted one here in Florida yesterday.
There was one perched in a tree for about 3 hours next to our church here in Brentwood Sunday. We’re about 12 miles from downtown Nashville.
Actually there are a lot more Bald Eagles than is generally known.
There a lot of them that look like normal eagles, but they are doing comb-overs.
I seen them nesting out near Albany, GA. Another Bald Eagle about flew into my windshield while I was driving my company van in another part of Georgia.
Raptors were far from uncommon in Harlem when I worked there in the 90’s. I once saw a female merlin sitting on a pipe in the basement of a building at the corner of 133 and Lenox.
I see them regularly flying by the Pentagon near 14th St. Bridge on my way into work. I often wonder how many other commuters see them. I’ve also seen them flying over the Capitol and the Library of Congress dome.
hey have a breeding pair here in northwest Jersey..they used to have a web cam on the nest to watch the babies cannot remem ber the web site, do not know if it is still up...
One of the most spectacular things that I have witnessed was a bald eagle fishing next to our boat on a lake in California. The eagle would circle and then we would get tired of watching it and the next thing was a loud bang. It was the eagle slapping its wings on the surface of the water.
Dad said that was to stun the fish that was near enough to the surface for the eagle to catch. About half the time the bird would come up out of the water with a fish.
As the eagle lifted off the water, it shook itself just as a wet dog would. Spinning off the excess water and it was not just a little bit of water either. About 15 feet off the surface the shake and rolling took place, it dropped a tiny bit in altitude and then began to climb back into the sky.
It was the impact sound on the water and the shake that I’ll never forget.
Ooops. Just checked Google earth, that was 140 and Lennox.
there’s a pair with a giant nest along the river outside of higgensport, oh. (about an hour away from cincinnati).
Bald eagle, Higginsport, Brown County, April 4, 2005.
At first I was thinking Charlie Rangle.
Last couple years I’ve been seeing bald eagles everywhere. Even in corn fields far from water...feeding on rabbits/squirrels etc.
Cool.
I bet the water adds weight...makes it harder to take off.
aaaw! isn’t he cute. actually the picture doesn’t do the nest justice. it’s the size of a v.w. bug now.
It was great until the Manhattan coyote got hold of it.
eagles are glorious...
eagles are not pristine though.they'll feed on a dead deer just as easily as a coyote would.
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