A tree full of bald eagles - they're even more amazing when you see one in flight. Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
w00t
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
That is an awesome picture!! Geez, isn't that the entire population of the species right there in that tree? Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
An interesting tidbit: To the native americans (well, to the Salish and Blackfeet, at least), the golden eagle is the majestic one - bald eagles are viewed as dirty scavengers.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Annie, I need your present address!(real life)
edob63@yahoo.com
(I have a packet of music ready to go. Do not ask anyone else on Hatrack, except Bob, how good i am at actually sending them in a timely fashion)
[ January 07, 2005, 03:54 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
Gorgeous pic, Annie. Thanks for posting that!
space opera
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Wow.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Lucky!
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
*squee* BALD EAGLES! *loves them*
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
It's not fair trying to make me homesick Annie.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote: An interesting tidbit: To the native americans (well, to the Salish and Blackfeet, at least), the golden eagle is the majestic one - bald eagles are viewed as dirty scavengers.
Ben Franklin used the same argument when he said the national icon should be the Turkey and not the Bald Eagle.
Still, amazing photo. Only place I ever see eagles is at the Detroit Zoo (ironically located in my nice little suburb, and not Detroit).
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Rabbit, if you had been there they would have tried to eat you!
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
It was also 30 below the day I left Bozeman. Does that help the homesickness, Rabbit? Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
I love seeing bald eagles. I often see them in the summer when I'm on the road between towns. They're a fairly common sight here. (Well, as "common" as bald eagles can be, anyway. Which isn't saying much.)
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Great picture!
There were bald eagles that used to nest in a particular area in the woods, right near the edge of a lake, a couple miles from my house when I was growing up. I used to enjoy hiking over there and watching them.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
My Mom just informed me that the reason the eagles hang out here in such large numbers this time of year is because it's calving season and they like to eat the afterbirths!
Posted by JemmyGrove (Member # 6707) on :
Where's this enigmatic 'here' where everyone is seeing bald eagles? Somewhere near Bozeman, I suppose, though I'm afriad I don't know where that is either.
The last eagle I saw was in a small public zoo in Kansas (I don't know if it was bald or golden -- can't they be both? ). I also got to hear the very sad story of the time when some nut case carried a shotgun into that same zoo some years ago and shot the eagle they had at the time. Heartbreaking.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
Last year, while hiking down the Grand Canyon to Havasupai, a Bald Eagle swooped down, not two feet above my head. It was awesome, as was that entire trip.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Can't speak for anyone else, but my personal "here" is southcentral Alaska.
Posted by JemmyGrove (Member # 6707) on :
Wow. No wonder. I've always wanted to see Alaska. My best friend in Jr. High and I had our future Alaska house plan all laid out and everything: Basically just a large library with two small wings -- one for me and my wife and kids and the other for his solitary self (he wasn't yet interested in girls).
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
However, Bozeman (which is Annie's 'here') is in Montana.
*ducks* Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Actually, I'm not in Bozeman anymore - I'm home living with the family which means the Beautiful Bitterroot Valley. (South of Missoula)
If you look at a map of Montana, the western edge looks kind of like the profile of an old man. The nose of that old man is my county.
This reminds me of the time I was flying home from visiting my grandma in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The girl behind us in line overheard our conversation about my airport schedule and asked, "Where is Missoula?" I answered, "Western Montana." She looked shocked and said "Oh. It sounded like it was another country. Like in Africa or something."
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
You mean Montana isn't another country?.....
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Wow, Annie ! That's wonderful !
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
My "here" was NE Kansas.
Posted by Beanny (Member # 7109) on :
Marvellous picture, thanks for sharing us with your experience!
I've only seen corpse-eating vultures in the desert a few weeks ago, never a whole flock (what an insulting name for such a noble bird) of Bald Eagles.
At least vultures are friendly ("We're your friends to the bitter end"...). I doubt any cocky Bald Eagle would say something that nice (maybe something like: "We're your friends until you stop paying "life insurance" ")
-Beany
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:That's dangerously close to northern Idaho. Any skinheads in your family?
Nope. All the white supremacists live in the eyebrow of the old man.
Posted by JemmyGrove (Member # 6707) on :
quote: My "here" was NE Kansas.
I wonder if the one I saw in the zoo in Emporia was one of the ones you had seen flying wild and free. <sardonic half-grin>
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