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For lunch. My cousin invited my extended family for the day to their camp at the lake. We were mostly gathered on their large front porch as lunch was being prepared.


Suddenly we saw this bald eagle fly by over the water. Then he (or she) came back and alighted near the top of this tree right in front of us. The base of the tree is about 35 feet from the porch and the branch is about 35 feet up. He just hung out there for maybe 15 minutes, but apparently decided that he could catch his own lunch sooner than he would get it from us, as he took off going in the direction of where my cousin said his nest is. My cousin's husband took this pic with a camera which is far better than my cell 'phone.




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I told the grandkids that this would be the closest that they would ever come to a bald eagle in their lives.


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Great picture. People travel miles just to see one in the distance, or not at all. Now all you need is an American Flag in the background. Stan
 
We live fairly close to the Mississippi river and we get an occasional Eagle flying around our area. My wife thinks every bird bigger than a crow is an eagle. She has a lot of pics of turkey buzzards flying around the house. It makes her happy to think they are eagles, so I just keep my mouth shut.
 
Someone hit a deer on the road that died in one of
my hayfields a couple of years ago. A bald eagle
spent the day here eating on it. It was quite a thrill to
watch!
 
Wish I could get a picture like that. There is a eagles nest on my place down by the creek. I have never see it but others have. I'd just like to see it, getting a picture like yours would be better.
 
I had a once in a life time encounter with
one about a month ago. I was hauling in
round bales one evening about six pm I
noticed a large bird in the sky there was a
small bird picking on him looked like he
was trying to peck at him.i just assumed it
was a hawk or a buzzard there always flying
around so I just didn't really pay much
attention to it.on my way back to the barn
my farm pond was about fifty yards in front
of me all of a sudden that thing swooped
down in the pond then flew off with one of
the wifes gold fish she put in about five
years ago in its talons when it turned I
could see its bald head and realized it was
a eagle
 
We have a lot of them around
here now and sightings are
common. They will come and sit
in the trees behind the house
ocassionally.
 
Neat neat birds . I was rounding up cattle last fall
and there was a bald eagle I saw on two different
days he was big enough to pack me and my horse
off his head was the size of a medium dogs head I
had a couple pictures of him
 
Twice this year, since spring, I have had an eagle, on the ground, in my chicken yard, trying to get to my hens, they ran and tried to hide in some vine maple brush, and he was going to wade in there after them, Both times I was setting on the rear deck, and ran out there to kick his butt, being as you can't shoot them,(protected). By the time I could get thru the gate, he was scared off. I have 2" mesh fence, 5 ft tall, and it keeps coyotes, and other predetors out, but how do you protect a large, chicken yard from areoal attact?
 
Same problem here, both eagles (plentiful around here) and other raptors including hawks and owls. Chain link fencing around a 50x50 pen.

First attempt was aviary netting. Expensive for my large chicken yard and the first heavy, wet snow trashed it.

Second attempt is a 2 foot square grid of fluorescent green mason's cord over the entire thing, with reflective mylar tape at the intersections. So far, so good and the snow didn't bother it. I expect the Sun will rot it eventually, but it's relatively cheap and easy to replace.
 
We had a dead deer in our field two years ago. Between a couple eagles some ravens and the coyotes all that was left in 48 hours was the spine and skull. And they were dragged into the woods a couple days later.
 
Great picture! Plenty of them around here. I usually know of about five or six nests and see birds a couple times a week without
realy trying.
 
(quoted from post at 02:47:52 07/30/19) Same problem here, both eagles (plentiful around here) and other raptors including hawks and owls. Chain link fencing around a 50x50 pen.

First attempt was aviary netting. Expensive for my large chicken yard and the first heavy, wet snow trashed it.

Second attempt is a 2 foot square grid of fluorescent green mason's cord over the entire thing, with reflective mylar tape at the intersections. So far, so good and the snow didn't bother it. I expect the Sun will rot it eventually, but it's relatively cheap and easy to replace.
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Fawteen, you could also try high strength fishing line. Birds are strongly repelled by coming into contact with something that they cannot see. It would probably require only a five foot spacing.
 

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Lightning killed this huge hackberry in my
yard.started cutting it up.next morning that pair
of baldies showed up.i left the tree for
them.they use that tree every time they come
back,5 years now they lite in it. We mow
yard,walk out and they just watch.
I got a bunch of meat scraps from butcher plant
in town,lay some on lower limbs.its fun watching
them walk down the tree to eat them.they jump
down a limb then walk it.
Im wondering whats gonna haappen soon proposed
wind tower going in too close to my house.
 
we have hog confinement buildings all around us they flock to the dumpsters full of dead hogs, nothin to see 6 to eight sitting all around the garbage dumpsters full dead hogs,
 
Great photo! Lots of birds of prey around here, but never seen a bald eagle in real life.
 
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