Posted on 12/22/2013 12:10:02 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator
All you folks that haven’t seen them, just head to mission BC. There are hundreds along the water right beside Highway 7. Years ago while hangliding I had one slip in underneath my left wing. That was the closest look I ever had at one.
Landlines forever, baby!
A bird lady at work would always correct people when they called a North American bird a buzzard.
I can hear her saying “they’re vultures not buzzards”
Buzzards aren’t native to No.Amer.
Kind of like swallows:
What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Bridgekeeper: Huh? I... I don’t know that.
Sir Bedevere: How do know so much about swallows?
King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you’re a king, you know.
It was pretty darn cool I must say, I only wish I would have had my Camera.
I can hear her saying “they’re vultures not buzzards” Buzzards aren’t native to No.Amer.
Junipers aren't cedars either, but we still call them "red cedars." They'll always be turkey buzzards (and black buzzards) to me. And I'm always thrilled to see one alit.
I was out duck hunting on the river one day and had a pair flying over me for a while.
I am an eagle nut. Just love them.
They winter here mostly...but we have some breeding pairs.
Of course the wind mill industry can legally kill so many a year...and the Sierra Club, USFG, and PETA have no problem with THAT!
It’s 30 miles away & you’ve never been? I know how that is. :-) Shame on us, though. The BF that turned me on to them used to restore wooden boats. I imagine he still does. (His family had a place at Lake Travis, though- not Buchanan)
I'm hoping that they become more common here. But as of now, my seeing one yesterday was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
I’ve seen one at the intersection of 1431 and Lohman’s ford road in Lago Vista. I was at CVS and heard the screech, looked up and there was one soaring about 100 ft up.
I have seen wild bald eagles twice. The first time was when I was on the Seattle waterfront. It was a semi-cloudy day, and the eagle was doing circles about 150 over the pier I was having lunch at. Other people noticed and started taking pictures. Wish to heaven I had a camera.
The second time was this last summer. Beautiful July day. I was in my back yard (south of Tacoma) and saw it flying over a neighbor’s house. I called my kids to come outside and they managed to get a good look at it before it flew away. They were singularly impressed.
Up here in Minnesota Bald Eagles are very, very common. They even inhabit park areas within the Twin cities metro are proper. I have seen them flying right down median of crowded freeways smack in the center of Minneapolis!
A couple years back our family was heading up north for a winter vacation in the Boundary Waters, which is on the Canadian border. During the drive we saw numerous instance of Bald Eagles feeding on road killed deer. I had no idea they would do that! It would be a huge, grand eagle standing on top of the carcass with a ring of crows waiting dancing around and maybe a fox or two sniffing around.
Eagle lands on soldier’s grave at Fort Snelling National Cemetery
In Seattle they are called ‘Dumpster Chickens’, but that’s Seattle.
I live in West Tennessee near Memphis and have seen bald eagles occasionally. In my lifetime (56 years) I have watched the fauna change dramatically.
A lot more deer everywhere.
The arrival of armadillos.
Fire ants have come.
Coyotes are here now.
Cottontail rabbits have gone away...at least I don’t see them any more.
Foxes are all around now.
I’ve seen a pond full of mallards with their head’s cocked up at the tiniest spot in the sky...a spot that could be on ‘em in a second.
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