eagles
Someone asked me about the eagle photo I have. Here is the story behind them.
I can tell you how to attract eagles, its real easy. You just take all the meat scraps from all the local grocery stores and throw it in a big field every evening at dusk. I guarantee you when the cold winter comes, and food gets scarce, you will have some eagles! You may also have alot of other animals such as crows, in fact, the eagles wait for the crows to tear up the meat and do all the work and the eagles bombard the crows in mid air and steal the meat from them! haha! It's fascinating to watch them. I have counted as many as 30 at one time! But now that the ice is off the water, the eagles disappear. They go fishing instead because they prefer fish.
The eagles have created alot of local interest. People stop to view them and sometimes create a traffic jam. There was even a front page story about them in the local newspaper. Since that story appeared, more stores have donated food for them! Many people stop with huge cameras on tripods to take photos of them and this is one such photo that someone dropped off to us btw. There was even a calender made with some of the eagle pictures! We have a copy of that also.
These are not our eagles by the way but we help with feeding them by picking up food and donating our own scraps. My sister-in-law who lives two houses down and is a fervent animal lover, started this many years ago. She has a handicapped son in a wheelchair who loves to watch them along with the turkeys, skunks, coons, deer and all the other ones that the food attracts.
Questions Please?
I can tell you how to attract eagles, its real easy. You just take all the meat scraps from all the local grocery stores and throw it in a big field every evening at dusk. I guarantee you when the cold winter comes, and food gets scarce, you will have some eagles! You may also have alot of other animals such as crows, in fact, the eagles wait for the crows to tear up the meat and do all the work and the eagles bombard the crows in mid air and steal the meat from them! haha! It's fascinating to watch them. I have counted as many as 30 at one time! But now that the ice is off the water, the eagles disappear. They go fishing instead because they prefer fish.
The eagles have created alot of local interest. People stop to view them and sometimes create a traffic jam. There was even a front page story about them in the local newspaper. Since that story appeared, more stores have donated food for them! Many people stop with huge cameras on tripods to take photos of them and this is one such photo that someone dropped off to us btw. There was even a calender made with some of the eagle pictures! We have a copy of that also.
These are not our eagles by the way but we help with feeding them by picking up food and donating our own scraps. My sister-in-law who lives two houses down and is a fervent animal lover, started this many years ago. She has a handicapped son in a wheelchair who loves to watch them along with the turkeys, skunks, coons, deer and all the other ones that the food attracts.
Questions Please?
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I love this story Bob.
Lovely story Bob. The Golden Eagle has been reintroduced to the area where I live as part of a pilot project. They had become extinct in the country over 100 years ago due to hunting. I have not seen any so far as they roam over a wide area. Sadly, a few have been poisoned by people who cannot see past their own beaks. Keep up the good work.
PJ of all the eagles we have seen over the course of the winter, we saw just one pair of the rare Golden eagles you mentioned. The indians use to use Golden eagles to hunt with. There was a show on tv about it called, \"The boy with the Golden Eagle\", it was quite interesting We have also seen osprey and other predatory birds which I can\'t think of right now.
Dren, We have hundreds of crows and they are huge from all the good food they get lol! Plus we have lots of turkeys who come every morning for breakfast!
Eagles are beautiful. Our neighbor harvests the dead roadkill of mostly deer and puts it out on a large platform feeder in the lake. It is like a dock but on posts to get it out of the water.
Very nice story! Thank you so much for sharing!