Bald Eagle

[bill ace 350]

Took this on Friday on my way home from work.

Bad picture, but the best I could get.

Glad I got to see it.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

I have a dash cam video of one launching from the side of the highway in front of me.

I grabbed a still image:

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Love watching eagles! Not seen many at the river lately.

 

[mr_whipple]

Love those birds. See them quite frequently here along with Ospreys and all kinds of raptors.

 

[Colin1230]

Eagles are abundant around here. More that most know. I really miss having a boat and going to the lake. We always saw eagles. Just uber cool.

 

[chopsaw]

Eagles are abundant around here. More that most know.

Same on this side . I have some great pictures here somewhere .

 

[bill ace 350]

Eagles are abundant around here. More that most know. I really miss having a boat and going to the lake. We always saw eagles. Just uber cool.

Not rare here either. Just a matter og having a camera ready!

 

[KonaRich]

Love those birds. See them quite frequently here along with Ospreys and all kinds of raptors.

We don't have any of those birds here, but we do have the Hawaiian Hawk, locally named 'Io. We see them occasionally. Here's one with the observatories atop Mauna Kea in the background.

 

[forktender]

Cool birds, I love seeing them, the last time I was up in Soldotna Alaska they were everywhere, they even landed on the boat we were fishing on looking for handouts.

Once while duck hunting I shot a drake Pintail, as it was dropping out of the sky a Bald Eagle hit it in mid air at what seemed Mach 5, you could hear it ripping through the air.
It blew feathers in a perfect circle that drifted down to the beaver pond that I was hunting. We just sat there in awah as it whipped around and grabbed it off the surface of the pond, and flew up into an oak tree to eat it. It was one of the coolest things that I've ever seen while hunting ducks, (ever really).

 

[ifitsdeadsmokeit]

We have a pair in the area that hang out occasionally. This is my backyard. Not a great pic since taken through a window.

 

[WaterRat]

Took this on Friday on my way home from work.

Bad picture, but the best I could get.

Glad I got to see it. View attachment 741846

I think the pic is pretty cool Not a lot of eagles right around here other than the ospreys at the shore but we have lots of hawks (and turkey vultures )

 

[radioguy]

They have returned big time in Ohio. This was in my backyard. She swooped in caught a catfish and sat on it for a minute then flew off to the nest.

RG

 

[mneeley490]

Cool birds, I love seeing them, the last time I was up in Soldotna Alaska they were everywhere, they even landed on the boat we were fishing on looking for handouts.

Once while duck hunting I shot a drake Pintail, as it was dropping out of the sky a Bald Eagle hit it in mid air at what seemed Mach 5, you could hear it ripping through the air.
It blew feathers in a perfect circle that drifted down to the beaver pond that I was hunting. We just sat there in awah as it whipped around and grabbed it off the surface of the pond, and flew up into an oak tree to eat it. It was one of the coolest things that I've ever seen while hunting ducks, (ever really).

Smart bird, let you do the hard part.

I am lucky enough to sometimes commute by rail to/from work. The train runs along the Puget Sound waterfront all the way between Everett and Seattle. Several months back I saw a bald eagle pacing us out over the water, carrying a small salmon in it's talons. Didn't have time to get a pic though.
During salmon spawning season, it's easy to drive some miles up the Skagit river to where they hit their final destination, and you can usually see dozens of eagles picking through the carcasses.

 

[Smoke-Chem BBQ]

We're lucky enough to see eagles and osprey from our deck, but just a couple of miles away an amazing phenomenon unfolds every November/December. Untold thousands of Kokanee salmon return to Wolf Lodge Bay on Lake Coeur d'Alene to spawn. And bald eagles from throughout the northwest make the pilgrimage here, to join the local birds in enjoying the feast. Fish and Game does weekly eagle counts in this bay during the migration, and peak counts are generally over 200 eagles, occasionally topping 400 bald eagles. It's really something to see. Professional and amateur wildlife photographers also migrate to Wolf Lodge Bay to capture the action.

I don't know the videographer who shot this, but it's one of the most impressive videos of the eagles feasting that I've seen. Well worth the 2.5 minutes to watch.

Eagles catching salmon

The underwater action is pretty cool as well. The local dive club makes a late-season dive in the bay to watch the salmon. This video is from last year, I'm the diver in the foreground (yellow regulator) who appears at about the 1 minute mark. We're only about 25' down, so plenty of natural light.

Salmon Dive

 

[KonaRich]

We're lucky enough to see eagles and osprey from our deck, but just a couple of miles away an amazing phenomenon unfolds every November/December. Untold thousands of Kokanee salmon return to Wolf Lodge Bay on Lake Coeur d'Alene to spawn. And bald eagles from throughout the northwest make the pilgrimage here, to join the local birds in enjoying the feast. Fish and Game does weekly eagle counts in this bay during the migration, and peak counts are generally over 200 eagles, occasionally topping 400 bald eagles. It's really something to see. Professional and amateur wildlife photographers also migrate to Wolf Lodge Bay to capture the action.

I don't know the videographer who shot this, but it's one of the most impressive videos of the eagles feasting that I've seen. Well worth the 2.5 minutes to watch.

Eagles catching salmon

The underwater action is pretty cool as well. The local dive club makes a late-season dive in the bay to watch the salmon. This video is from last year, I'm the diver in the foreground (yellow regulator) who appears at about the 1 minute mark. We're only about 25' down, so plenty of natural light.

Salmon Dive

Very cool!! We've dove with many different fish, including blind cave fish, and mammals, but never salmon. I'd love to do that.