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Rare sighting in the Suburbs- Our National Bird
Personal ^ | 12/13/2015 | Self/Friend

Posted on 01/13/2015 8:07:59 AM PST by mabarker1

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Yes.

Awesome natural tableau in Central New York: The eagles of Onondaga Lake

21 posted on 01/13/2015 8:31:33 AM PST by lysie
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We see them all the time in WA state. We saw them everyday when living in SE Alaska. Not so majestic when you see them feeding at the garbage dump though..they are a scavenger.


22 posted on 01/13/2015 8:34:42 AM PST by Pilated
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Bald Eagles have made a tremendous comeback, and in 2007 were removed from the endangered species and threatened species lists.

Still protected, of course, and possession of a single Eagle feather, even if it fell off the bird as it flew over your head, is a $25,000 fine. (Unless you are a native American with permission.)


23 posted on 01/13/2015 8:41:10 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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I live in the panhandle. There’s a nest of baldies in a longleaf pine the next street over from us.


24 posted on 01/13/2015 8:48:00 AM PST by clintonh8r (Death to islam.)
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We have a house on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia and we have the priviledge to watch these fine birds!
25 posted on 01/13/2015 8:56:45 AM PST by DooDahhhh
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You can see bald eagles within the city limits of Seattle.


26 posted on 01/13/2015 8:56:49 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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Very close to the Mississippi here in Il. I've had them in my trees. I have seen nearly 100 at a time by the locks near me and heard on the radio that there are around 600 around the locks in the Illinois / Iowa Quad Cities right now. One of my Chicago buddies commented after seeing them all over that if you didn't know what they were you would think they were a pest!
27 posted on 01/13/2015 9:04:24 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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In Denton, huh? That’s about 50 miles from me. Hope they migrate down to my area of Texas. I’ve never seen one.


28 posted on 01/13/2015 10:31:56 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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There are two nesting pairs of Bald Eagles in Pittsburgh now. One pair on a hill side above the Allegheny river and another pair above the Monongahela river.

The pair on the Monongahela successfully raised 3 chicks last summer and 2 chicks the year before.


29 posted on 01/13/2015 11:47:03 AM PST by Ditto
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I had to outrun a Golden Eagle and then fight it for possession of one of my dogs.

Not terribly entranced by eagles, anymore.

:-\


30 posted on 01/13/2015 12:35:40 PM PST by Salamander (No more nights of blood and fire..)
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Awesome .......thanks for the heads up.


31 posted on 01/13/2015 3:05:36 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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A bald eagle killed a woman’s Chihuahua the other day in Spring, Texas just north of Houston.


32 posted on 01/13/2015 3:36:18 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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Sorry about going “Poof” Yesterday and not monitoring the Thread.

I’m still not back up to full speed from the “Sinus Plague 2014/2015”

I get Head Aches after just a short amount of Screen time/reading.

And I’ve already hit that point this AM.

Be back later.


33 posted on 01/14/2015 4:41:05 AM PST by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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Grew up in Denton through the sixties and seventies. I heard of them in the area as early as the mid eighties though.


34 posted on 01/14/2015 4:53:10 AM PST by Duckdog (If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
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Which of your dogs was small enough to be carried off by an eagle?


35 posted on 01/18/2015 6:49:11 AM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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Gypsy, the Portuguese Podengo Medio.

Of all crazy things, her ongoing issues from her previous abuse in CA saved her.

If I move towards her too fast, she’ll drop flat to the ground, still expecting mistreatment.

I was running to her and screaming and she hit the dirt instantly, allowing me to scoop her up on the fly and run back to the house with her.

The damn bird’s wings were hitting me in the back.

As I reached the porch, I looked up and it was coming back for another dive.

For a good month, I waited for that bastard to come back but it never did.


36 posted on 01/18/2015 10:25:54 PM PST by Salamander (No more nights of blood and fire..)
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