Eagle picture

aces-n-eights · January 16, 2009, 05:03:35 PM

Here's another i took in Homer Alaska - Kummock's home town. This was out on the Homer spit and i call the picture "Burp" because it looks like this eagle just got done with a big meal.

By the way, the "Homer Eagle Lady" died this past week - she was quite a character. Here is an article about her in our local paper...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/011509/new_280356317.shtml

Caribou · January 16, 2009, 07:26:11 PM

Great picture An8!
Thanks for sharing the Homer Eagle Lady with us, too.
Carolyn

HCT · January 17, 2009, 08:48:52 AM

Debs, a few have been introduced here along the Housatonic also. They are beautiful to see.

Beautiful pic A&8's

Caribou · January 17, 2009, 11:42:06 AM

The turkeys showed up for breakfast this morning and I took a picture so I could show everybody the white one.
He's not an albino or domestic turkey but he is a throw back to some domestic blood that was introduced somewhere along the line by fish and game.
Well, that's what ID F&G told me when I asked them.
Carolyn

Smoking Duck · January 17, 2009, 12:49:46 PM

Do they come around like that during turkey season, Carolyn? ;D ;D ;D

Caribou · January 17, 2009, 01:17:18 PM

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!! They do SD! ;D ;D ;D
But we don't hunt them.
Carolyn

stillsmoking · January 17, 2009, 06:04:14 PM

Okeejohn, great eagle picture, you really captured it! A&8's nice eagle also. Will have to look around here and see if I can locate a few good pics. We have one picture somewhere that you can count 17 eagles in one tree, we counted 51 eagles total in that spot. Sometimes in the winter and early spring we get quite a bunch below the house on the beach. When we get deep snow life gets hard for everything and available food draws a crowd. It's kind of fun to watch the progression of birds and the pecking order. Often the sea gulls find the food first but the crows will move them off the food even though they are smaller. The crows give way when the ravens show up and of course the other birds make way for the eagles. Having said that I have watched crows tug on the the tail feathers of the eagles and have captured it on film with my camcorder. I have also watched crows mob lone eagles and drive them off. Nice pics all, really enjoy the birds!

Gizmo · January 17, 2009, 09:33:28 PM

Quote from: Caribou on January 17, 2009, 01:17:18 PM
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!! They do SD! ;D ;D ;D
But we don't hunt them.
Carolyn

Can I? :D

MMMMMMmmmmm Wild Turkey and not the liquid kind. ;D

DrtiBird · January 18, 2009, 08:29:35 AM

Quote from: Caribou on January 16, 2009, 08:31:17 AM
I do not have any great eagle photos like the ones that are being posted but I have got a wild turkey photo.

I think they may be conjoined ;)
Carolyn

Don't feel too bad Carolyn, the turkeys taste better than the eagles and there are more recipes! ;D ;D

cowgirl · January 18, 2009, 08:44:56 AM

Beautiful pictures!

deb415611 · January 18, 2009, 09:42:01 AM

This is what I did this morning. About 20 degrees & snowy. Saw two adults and missed the two immatures....

Shepaug Dam, Southbury CT

stillsmoking · January 18, 2009, 10:10:21 AM

Okeejohn and A & 8's, this picture doesn't have the detail of your pictures but shows a little eagle convention on the beach below the house.

How many can you count?

Gizmo · January 18, 2009, 10:57:28 AM

Nine possibly ten if you talking just the eagles.

Bradley (Head Office) · January 18, 2009, 11:08:42 AM

My count is 11 :)

stillsmoking · January 18, 2009, 12:00:38 PM

11 it is! At one point there were 17 either in the air or on the ground. If you look close you can see a salmon in the talons of one eagle and there were other smaller pieces scattered around the beach.