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Bird ID needed....
First off...I already know what type of bird this is but....
When Mastevt posted his photo of his sighting of a bald eagle on his place it brought me to thinking about a friend of mine that lives in New York
City. His roots are here in Missouri but is a pretty business oriented guy numbers and upper management wise. Anyway I've been sending him pics from
my game camera and included the one I entered it the contest over the weekend in Columbia of the bald eagle on the deer carcass. He then returns an
email saying that they have bald eagles all up and down the Hudson River there. He said that he watches them from his apartment and office window
catching fish and flying up to the trees to eat them. He took a photo of one and sent it to me.
What do you guys think....
Is this a Bald Eagle?
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Must be a juvinile. Takes something like 4 years to get their white head.
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looks like a osprey....
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It is.
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Looks like an osprey or as they call them in the Mid-Atlantic, a fishhawk.
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yup
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I know my friend is smart because he makes 10 times as much money as I do but I just didn't have the nerve to tell him his "Bald Eagle" was indeed an
"Osprey". I guess that there are "Country Smarts" and "City Smarts". He was my brother in law for awhile but we are still friends and I'll have a
place to stay if I ever get to New York City in my future.
It is indeed an Osprey.
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rat
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MM... you have seen them at LOZ on some of your snagging trips with Snowman i'm guessing?
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I've seen lots of ospreys around the Lake and once in awhile a bald eagle or juvenile bald eagle and even at my property which is quite aways from the
lake.
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There is pair that have nested at Lak Jacomo in the past few years. They are waaaaay too cool to watch!
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I grew up in New England, they're all over. Neat as heck to see one catch a fish as they smack the water but good.
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I'd set him straight.....He's up there setting in his office, with all those yuppies, laughin at a Mo. redneck that thinks an Osprey is a Bald
Eagle!!!! 
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Quote: Originally posted by FiremanBrad  | | I'd set him straight.....He's up there setting in his office, with all those yuppies, laughin at a Mo. redneck that thinks an Osprey is a Bald
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They are indeed very interesting raptors. They were quite common where we lived in Wyoming and always a joy to watch when fishing. We also had
Golden eagles there along with the bald. All fascinating.
We're blessed to frequently see both bald eagles and osprey where we live.
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| Quote: Originally posted by sharps4590 | They are indeed very interesting raptors. They were quite common where we lived in Wyoming and always a joy to watch when fishing. We also had
Golden eagles there along with the bald. All fascinating.
We're blessed to frequently see both bald eagles and osprey where we live.
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I was a very grateful audience to a golden eagle last august in Wyoming that was cruising very near a watering hole I was hunting.
Awesome and the first one I had ever seen in the wild... takes your breath away.
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| Quote: Originally posted by rat | | Quote: Originally posted by sharps4590 | They are indeed very interesting raptors. They were quite common where we lived in Wyoming and always a joy to watch when fishing. We also had
Golden eagles there along with the bald. All fascinating.
We're blessed to frequently see both bald eagles and osprey where we live.
Vic |
I was a very grateful audience to a golden eagle last august in Wyoming that was cruising very near a watering hole I was hunting.
Awesome and the first one I had ever seen in the wild... takes your breath away. |
Mr. Hornbuckle told us one year, that an adult Golden will kill 1 mule deer or antelope PER DAY, in the dead of winter!!!! Dat's alot of dead
goats!!! They get the herd running, until they can't run anymore, then the eagle lands on thier back and starts eating!!!!
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Total Deer = 27
Total Gross = 4544 2/8"
Total Net = 4294 0/8"
Average Gross = 168 3/8"
Average Net = 150 0/8"
Largest Gross = 216 3/8"
Largest Net = 203 3/8"
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Well... they are big enough, thats for sure.
Saw him way on the west fence at #8
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Goldens are very successful predators. Elmer Keith wrote of finding hundreds of mountain goat kid skeletons beneath a Golden eagle nest. That was
back in the 30's and 40's.....the eagles were shot on sight. Never heard of them taking antelope or deer fawns but don't doubt they couldn.
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