My first Bald Eagle sighting

[karrick]

I was fishing at Hardy Resevoir Monday night. Real nice evening, only sound to be heard was crickets and cicadas. As I'm trolling through a stumpfield looking for a good fishing hole, I hear a loud Woosh, Woosh, Woosh. About 50 feet above the boat a bald eagle swooped out of a tree and went soaring across the lake. What an amzing animal! I guess the eagles are making a comeback in Southern Indiana. I'm on route to buy a disposable waterproof camera to leave in the boat to hopefully catch one on film next time. <br />

 

[eeboater]

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When I was in Alaska there were tons of em. It was awesome, they were almost as prevalent as seagulls! <br /><br />Sean

 

[RetNav]

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I agree ee. You couldn't even clean a fish outside without the eagles gathering around looking for a free meal. I have some slides somewhere showing some of them. Of course I wasn't in mainland Alaska, I was about 1,000 miles out on the chain, Adak was the place.

 

[ErikDC]

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Bald eagles are making a comeback here in Ohio too, Karrick. I saw my first and only so far near Hoover Reservoir about two years ago. Now THAT'S a big bird! Very cool, huh?

 

[mikeandronda]

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2-3 yrs ago I counted 50+ bald eagles out on the ice on the Black River in La Crosse....was awesome.......... They are there every year.

 

[DJ]

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They're EVERYWHERE.

 

[txswinner]

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Saw three at Wyandotte County Lake in KCK last winter, and what a sight. Don't know if they get this far south anyone know.

 

[Skiuseme]

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Mike I can atest that they are still there Every Day sitting on the ice fishing in the open spots. I have had a dry spell for seeing them here in the past month but i saw one today. Usually its 1 or 2 a week

 

[FSHKPR]

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Here in wisconsin they are coming back also. saw three sitting high in a pine tree a couple weeks back on resivior pond. had a camera but it had no zoom and they were to high for a decent pic. sure are majestic looking tho.

 

[one more cast]

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They are truly an awsome bird. We have a few around upstate NY also.

 

[DJ]

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Not to rain on the parade, but my studies of biology show them as:<br /><br />1. Opportunistic.<br /><br />2. Birds of prey, on the WEAK/dead only. Far on the very top of the food chain.<br /><br />3. Fragile. Nothing to do with the environment, other that idiot shooters looking for an easy target.<br /><br />We've all taken the "pill" that the eviro's fed us.

 

[BF]

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I'm not sure what parade or pill you mean... but up here they're not uncommon. Not as common as hawks or loons, but many lakes have resident baldies. <br /><br />As far as only preying on weak/dead, I think that's not quite true. The 2 times I've seen a bald eagle flying with prey it had, 1) about a 2+ pound northern pike (it had swooped over the shallows and grabbed the pike that was near the shore), very cool to see and 2) a large garter snake. Both were definately not dead (were wigglin' away). Yes, I'd say opportunistic is a good word for them. I know people get nervous about their cats when lots of eagles are around.

 

[DJ]

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BF,<br /><br />I've seen many carrying dead carp/muskrats, etc. over a river that was proclaimed "dead".<br /><br />All enviro. BS.