Posted on 04/24/2018 9:39:39 AM PDT by BBell
NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio - Visitors to the Sandy Ridge Reservation on Sunday witnessed a traumatic nature event when a non-resident bald eagle attacked the eagles nesting there.
As birders and trail walkers watched in horror, the invading eagle repeatedly thrashed at the nesting female with its sharp beak and talons, eventually driving it away.
The gravely wounded female was later found on a roadside in North Ridgeville and taken to the rehabilitation clinic at the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center, where it died, said Senior Park Naturalist Tim Fairweather.
But the invading eagle wasn't finished with its assault.
Photographer Daniel Grossi arrived at the nest site about 5 p.m. to find the male on the nest keeping watch on the eaglet. The female invader was perched nearby for at least two hours, eyeing the nest, he said in a Facebook post.
About 7 p.m., the female dove for the eaglet and scuffled with the male. Then she flew away with the eaglet clutched in her talons, he said.
The male screamed, but did not pursue the female.
"It was the worst thing I have ever seen," said Caroline Gerace Martinsen, who witnessed the event and posted her sighting on Facebook. "I hope I never see anything like that ever again."
"I checked the nest this morning and there are no adults or eaglets," Fairweather said.
One eagle cam viewer said he was watching the nest online when the camera suddenly went dark. When the picture returned online a short time later, the nest was empty, according to a Facebook post from Jeff Barnes of Elyria. Glitches on bird cameras are not uncommon.
On Monday, the Lorain County Metro Parks posted a message on Facebook about the attack.
"Sad to report that the resident female Bald Eagle was attacked by another female
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Can’t eat goat without first tenderizing it. Any eagle knows that.
“I am an Eagle, flying high, wild and free. I am NOT a wingless Tweety Bird in a gilded cage!”
Caught the same ting years ago looking at my chimney with a tree right behind it I saw the hawk sweep in and grab the squirrel from the limb.
Lol!
Don’t give any politicians any ideas. They will give a university a billion dollars to study the ‘problem’ and still not solve it.
I’ve been watching this barred owl nest. Everyday the male drops off provisions, including various songbirds. It represents a conundrum for bird-lovers ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du0CF3IWrvM
Geez, you mean nature isn’t like Bambi and Finding Nemo?
And these same people would shrug at the notion of a woman aborting her baby.
“The Indians will be ecstatic....more feathers for them.”
Don’t dare pick one up....Sessions will arrest you.
Raptors are awful creatures...descendants of flying reptiles. Deserve to intercept a load of No. 7’s.
Hopper: It’s a bug-eat-bug world out there, princess. One of those Circle of Life kind of things. Now let me tell you how things are supposed to work: The sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food...
Molt: And the birds eat the grasshoppers. Hey, like the one that nearly ate you, you remember? You remem- Oh, you shoulda seen it, okay?
Hopper: Molt!
Molt: This blue jay has him half way down his throat, okay? And Hopper - Hopper’s kicking and screaming, okay? And I’m scared, okay, I’m not going anywhere near, okay- Aw, come on! It’s a great story.
Libtards like to imagine that nature is all peaches and cream. Idiots!
Btw, what do these ppl think all the wolves they love to re-introduce do to all the weaker critters? Do they think it’s all Kumbaya when a predator gets at its prey???
I remember visiting a place in Nebraska where hundreds of years earlier a bunch of Ingenious Indians ran a whole heard of Buffalo over a cliff.
I was driving along in my suburban town when a tree just ahead of my car started shaking and a writhing blob dropped from it. A second later the blob took flight, a juvenile hawk struggling to get airborn with a squirrel in its talons. The young hawk wasn't much bigger than the squirrel I was dangerously mesmerized as I stared at the hawk flying right at window level doing my same speed for a good couple of seconds until it was able to get enough lift to get higher. Then it disappeared. All I could think was "well, that escalated quickly".
Mother nature is a mean momma!
Nature reflects the human world. Didn’t Toronto just have people run down by an invading thug intent on killing those native to the area? I’m disappointed in how shocked leftists are when animals do it and how indifferent they are when diverse people do the same thing.
That's no joke. I was at an event at the Philadelphia Eagles stadium and they brought out an eagle that they let fly around the stadium prior to games. Very cool, got to look at it right up close. However when they took it out of it's cage a feather dropped to the ground. A kid reached out to pick it up and the handlers ran to intercept her like she was about to touch a cobra. It's really, really illegal and they will punish you even for feathers you just find laying around.
That’s nature. Some animals eat other animals. That’s how it works.
We have over a dozen feeders with sunflower seed and corn for deer and birds and squirrels and the hawks think of it as a buffet.
My wife wants me to 'try and save the animal' that the hawk is taking and my response is always the same, 'Worms, hawks, buzzards, they gotta eat too.
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