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Posted: 1/23/2018 12:05:19 PM EST

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Alaska is covered up with Bald Eagles. Cools birds.

In recent years, we find Ospreys on half of the utility poles around here.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:10:22 PM EST

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I see one flying just outside my house every few weeks.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:13:12 PM EST

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They eat porcupines, that's all I have to add

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:14:22 PM EST

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Had 7 hanging out near us while ice fishing on the missouri river in southern SD on sunday morning. We see a lot of them in the spring, they follow the snow goose migration back north and clean up cripples from all of the snow goose hunters.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:16:27 PM EST

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They like to snatch up cripples when duck hunting near Reelfoot as well.

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Hunting Snow geese near Squaw Creek, they would come to the sound of gun fire.
Had to jump on the 4 wheeler and run down cripples.
Did lose a few, but it was cool to see

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:16:42 PM EST

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Took this in my backyard at dawn.

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Posted: 1/23/2018 12:20:05 PM EST

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We have a group of 4 that hang around our jobsite pretty regularly. Seems like they are nesting along the San Jacinto river a mile or so from us, just east of Houston

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:20:53 PM EST

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Too many of them and they should be hunted to control their numbers and disease outbreaks...

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No guarantee that'll work, look at deer, hunted and there are still too many and now we have CWD.
Unlike deer eagles are not destructive to the environment.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:21:57 PM EST

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Tag for home

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:22:12 PM EST

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Awesome.

I live across the street from a big lake and I've seen bald eagles flying around here every now and then. Always strikes me how big they are compared to red tails which we have a ton of around here.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:23:53 PM EST

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Don't judge them as they are no different than man going for an easy meal. We hit up fast food and they hit the dump.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:25:44 PM EST

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Will have to see if I still habe the photo. They swarm during the elk reduction here on the refuge. There was something like 14 in the tree.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:26:39 PM EST

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No guarantee that'll work, look at deer, hunted and there are still too many and now we have CWD.
Unlike deer eagles are not destructive to the environment.

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Too many of them and they should be hunted to control their numbers and disease outbreaks...

No guarantee that'll work, look at deer, hunted and there are still too many and now we have CWD.
Unlike deer eagles are not destructive to the environment.

250k less than there were in September

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:27:40 PM EST

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Check out the Florida Eagle cam on youtube. It is a 24hr live feed of a breeding pair.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:28:10 PM EST

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Come up to NE Iowa. They nest all along the Mississippi river here and congregate near open water in winter. They also gather in large groups on the ground in picked fields where the farmers spread manure from the barns and hog lots. Dead baby pigs go into the manure spreader, eagles love em.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:33:17 PM EST

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Their nests can be humongous.

The average bald eagle nest is 4 to 5 feet in diameter and 2 to 4 feet deep. Each year the adult pair will add 1-2 feet of new material to the nest. The largest recorded bald eagle nest, located in St. Petersburg, Florida, was 9.5 feet in diameter, 20 feet deep and weighed almost 3 tons. Golden eagle nests, while large, are generally smaller and flatter than bald eagle nests.

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Posted: 1/23/2018 12:46:09 PM EST

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Too many of them and they should be hunted to control their numbers and disease outbreaks...

Ben Franklin was right the American Wild Turkey should have been our national bird...more useful.

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And we wouldn't be able to hunt them or have a bird for Thanksgiving

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:53:40 PM EST

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They've been landing in my pasture beating the buzzards to the lamb afterbirth. Saw one eating a road kill possum on the way to work. Becoming more common here, away from any big bodies of water. Defiantly have made a comeback.

Posted: 1/23/2018 12:57:12 PM EST

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Too many of them and they should be hunted to control their numbers and disease outbreaks...

Ben Franklin was right the American Wild Turkey should have been our national bird...more useful.

And we wouldn't be able to hunt them or have a bird for Thanksgiving

Maybe bald eagle would taste better then wild turkey. I’m done hunting them because they aren’t worth eating.

Posted: 1/23/2018 1:06:22 PM EST

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We have them in my area. I've seen about a half dozen Ravens gang up on a Bald Eagle and chase it away.

Posted: 1/23/2018 1:12:59 PM EST

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Posted: 1/23/2018 1:19:29 PM EST

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Does this mean we can start using DDT again and save millions of lives from malaria?

Posted: 1/23/2018 1:25:51 PM EST

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I see them in my backyard quite often. Ospreys, hawks and owls too. Plus tons of wading birds.

Actually we have lots of animals wandering around.

Posted: 1/23/2018 1:29:05 PM EST

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They have really been multiplying here in W Tenn. Becoming a common sight just about anywhere I fish. Never saw one in the wild until about 5 years ago and now everywhere!!!

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They ruined one of my favorite duck hunting spots about 5 years ago. Several would sit around in the trees a few hundred yards off and head toward the blind whenever we shot. It was a race between them and the dog to retrieve a kill. The last couple years we hunted there, we recovered way less than 50% of the birds we knocked down.

Posted: 1/23/2018 1:45:37 PM EST

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Posted: 1/23/2018 1:49:24 PM EST

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Saw some on my property in SW Missouri this November. Saw a massive bird take off out of a tree then realized the head and tail were white. As it flew over it was obvious what it was. Really cool. A second took off moments later. Nice variation from the red tails and turkey vultures I usually see.

Posted: 1/23/2018 1:50:05 PM EST

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Saw this guy snatch up a fish today, never seen one down here before.

Trumps fault!

Posted: 1/23/2018 1:51:21 PM EST

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I saw one last week near Pennsauken, it looked like it was going North , flying in circles down the Delaware River.

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We are starting to have sightings more often in my area of New Jersey. It's still a cool sight as there are not that many here but at least they are making a come back.

I saw one last week near Pennsauken, it looked like it was going North , flying in circles down the Delaware River.

I'm not far from there. I'll see them circling over Big Timber Creek in Gloucester Township looking for a meal.

Posted: 1/23/2018 2:03:24 PM EST

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Wish they were plentiful here, pigeons might start reducing in population. No matter how many pigeons we shoot its never enough.

Posted: 1/23/2018 2:41:36 PM EST

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Same here in SE TN.

I saw the first one about 8 years ago and see them often now.

Lots of Ospreys also. I have watched eagles and ospreys fighting over fish a couple times.

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We have a few here in NE TN. They're breeding, but slowly. They put nests in the national forest and on some large tracts of gov land. Pretty cool...

Posted: 1/23/2018 3:31:48 PM EST

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When I was a kid we never saw a hawk.
Now football sized hawks are everywhere.

And a few Bald Eagles as well

Posted: 1/23/2018 3:37:39 PM EST

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Saw one the other day near the Fox River in South Elgin, IL. Surprised me. Huge bird.

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They are all along the fox river. I see them on my ride up to Geneva.

Posted: 1/23/2018 5:58:01 PM EST

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Yeah, it's crazy how well they recovered. I think we have more bald eagles than crows, now.

Posted: 1/23/2018 6:08:42 PM EST

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Yeah, it's crazy how well they recovered. I think we have more bald eagles than crows, now.

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That's awesome.

I love seeing them, but it's pretty rare.

There's a few on the Potomac.

Posted: 1/23/2018 6:11:46 PM EST

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Had 8 on some hog guts I dumped behind my barn.
They started arriving before I could walk to the house to wash my hands.
Black headed vultures drove them off pretty quick though.

Posted: 1/23/2018 6:15:44 PM EST

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Central Utah in the wintertime everywere.

Posted: 1/23/2018 6:16:39 PM EST

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They're getting ready to beat the Patriots.

Posted: 1/23/2018 6:23:25 PM EST

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I haven’t watched much football this year, but I hope the pats get beat.

Posted: 1/23/2018 7:27:16 PM EST

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Some pictures from the back yard.

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Posted: 1/23/2018 7:31:55 PM EST

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Took this in my backyard at dawn.

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That's awesome.

Posted: 1/23/2018 7:32:14 PM EST

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Drove 25 miles down the Columbia yesterday and counted 10 bald eagles. Those were just the easy ones to see since I was driving at 70.

I know they are just good looking vultures but it’s still cool that they are all over now. 25 years ago when I was a kid seeing a bald eagle was a pull over and ohh and ahh at it afair.

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They sense the MAGA and are flying everywhere.

Posted: 1/23/2018 7:37:09 PM EST

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I hope to one day be able to catch some flight shots of one. I'd settle for a nesting shot.

For whatever reason whenever I've got the big lens out all the good stuff seems to hide.

I barely managed to sneak a few shots of an osprey my last trip out to the swamp.

Of course now I'm over here in the PI full time, not too many bald eagles here.

Posted: 1/23/2018 7:38:29 PM EST

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I saw my first (in a long long time) not too long ago too. I hope I see more.
I'm not going to put any photographers out of work but seeing a bald eagle is rare enough for me to take a picture: