Posted on 05/11/2013 7:38:32 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
You've probably never seen so many bald eagles in one place. Bald eagles might be scarce in the lower 48 of the United States, but the noble national bird is in abundance in the unusually named and lovely town of Unalaska, Alaska.
Typically depicted as noble lone hunters, bald eagles will be happy to accept a free lunch just like the rest of us would. This flash mob of angry birds apparently couldn't pass up their favorite food.
The group of about 40 bald eagles is seen at leisure, casually lunching on a giant load of fish fillets carelessly left in the back of a pickup truck in a Safeway parking lot.
Apparently, word got out among the eagles that it was lunchtime. Can you blame them? Free food!
There were so many of the of the giant, serious-looking birds flocking around the pickup truck and vehicles next to it, shoppers were afraid to go to their cars. Many called the police for help.
According to Unalaska TV and radio station KUCB, local police officer Bill Simms put on his siren in hopes of chasing away the birds. That was successful for some of them, but not the bravest of the bunch. Simms had to chase the rest of them away himself, urging fearful shoppers whose cars were nearby to "just get your keys ready and when I shoo them away, run into your cars."
It worked. No one was hurt, the pickup truck owner hightailed it out of there with the remainder of his fish fillets, probably hoping the eagles wouldn't be following him all the way home.
I wonder if Simms knows it’s a federal crime to disturb bald eagles? Up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine for the first offense, and felony charges for the second.
Not sure how you define scarce, but Bald Eagles are now commonly seen along the waterways of New York through at least Maryland. And that just my area of travel.
Did a French tourist take a fall?
“........giant load of fish fillets carelessly left in the back of a pickup truck....”
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Must not have been packaged. I hope that it was food for his sled dog pack and not for his family.
Oh that was mean, funny but mean.
There are plenty of them in my neck of the woods as well. I’m just west of Minneapolis.
Cool video. Were they dining on Obama and the travesty of a country we have now?
Gives a good idea of their size, which from head to tail are nearly as high from the floor as a standard door knob height. I think there's some Ospreys mixed in with this group but could be immature BE's.
Thanks for this one, and enjoy!
This was the first time I’m proud of my country. /LOL
Same here. I see quite a few every day here in north eastern California.
Thanks!
Why are they acting like democrats?
I used to cross the Potomac for work and see Bald Eagles regularly.
They have them in Florida
LOL!
I’ve seen seagulls acting like that when they discover a free fish lunch, but never bald eagles. I always thought they were loners.
A few winters ago we counted over 65 bald eagles near Cherokee City, Arkansas. They had gathered in the trees near a field, their white heads is what first caught my eye.
My wife started counting them, and lost count at 65. there were still others in the trees. I believe there were close to 100 of them.
I went home and came back with camera. I contacted the company chemist who was also a photographer and we went back and got several photos. By then many of the eagles had flown, but the sky was full of them.
I’ve never seen so many in one place before.
A few months ago I saw a group of 40 or 50 of them here in SE Nebraska.
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