OT: Prof at State doing Bald Eagle tracking

[aTotal360]

BamaBass is one of my favorite Youtube channels. If you like fishing, engineering and pond building, his multiyear project building his lake has been awesome. I have a notifier that goes off every other Sunday night to remind the new episode is coming out. The best part is the dude seems really humble and doesn't make the episodes about himself. It's always about the lake, wildlife, and the contractors doing the work. Rarely is he in the videos.

Anyway, he mentions a professor at State putting trackers on bald eagles for research purposes.

 

[Shmuley]

We encountered one while hiking in Ouchita NF a few years back. Sumbitch bolted his roost just as we rounded a bend screeching like a banshee. Scared the $h!+ out of us. Those MFers are huge.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

We encountered one while hiking in Ouchita NF a few years back. Sumbitch bolted his roost just as we rounded a bend screeching like a banshee. Scared the $h!+ out of us. Those MFers are huge.

We have several bald eagles now we see regularly and they’ve been nesting for almost ten years on one farm. You think when you see other raptors from a distance that maybe it’s a bald eagle until you actually see one. It’s massive.

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Been up fairly close to some bald eagles; yes, they’re impressive.

But the ones I’ve seen are not as big as a Golden Eagle we saw up close out west in Utah years ago. I guess those western eagles are another set of genes, kinda like northern whitetail.

That golden was the biggest bird of prey I’ve ever seen and it’s not close.

 

[aTotal360]

We encountered one while hiking in Ouchita NF a few years back. Sumbitch bolted his roost just as we rounded a bend screeching like a banshee. Scared the $h!+ out of us. Those MFers are huge.

I see bald eagles all the time nowadays in the Southeast. From fishing the Tombigbee to the bay in Fairhope.

 

[maroonmadman]

My in-laws live on Tibee creek in Lowndes Co. They have a regular pair of eagles that nest near where they live. We enjoy watching them raise their young, fun to watch the little ones grow up and learn to hunt. There is also a pair of Ospreys that nest near by. They will run the eagles off if they get too close to their nest. Mother Nature at her best.

 

[mstateglfr]

SPS aint as young as it used to be.

 

[tcdog70]

i have 5 right behind my deer stand-and 2 more at our golf course.. they are fun to watch

 

[rowdy53103]

We saw one a couple of mornings last week on the Madison County side of the spillway. Wish I had pulled over for better pictures, but there was no way that I was going to fight the traffic coming from Rankin side to loop around for another pass.

 

[Darryl Steight]

We saw one a couple of mornings last week on the Madison County side of the spillway. Wish I had pulled over for better pictures, but there was no way that I was going to fight the traffic coming from Rankin side to loop around for another pass.

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Wonder if this is the same one we saw a couple weeks ago over Liberty Park in Madison. My youngest daughter said "Look, an Eagle" and I of course said "no way". But it dang sure was. We watched it soar for a while until he moved off to the east. Beautiful bird.

 

[Darryl Steight]

Wonder if this is the same one we saw a couple weeks ago over Liberty Park in Madison. My youngest daughter said "Look, an Eagle" and I of course said "no way". But it dang sure was. We watched it soar for a while until he moved off to the east. Beautiful bird.

And mods, you're welcome, I didn't even mention the completely irrefutable scientific fact that American eagles love Trump and that's why we're seeing so many of them these days**


[just a joke, boys, no need to get your angry typing fingers warmed up]

 

[Dawgbite]

I have a mating pair of Goldens nesting in the timber beside my house. They’ve been there for five plus years. It’s amazing watching them train the chicks to hunt. They use my back yard as training grounds. They will delimb and de head a squirrel. one parent and the chick will start out on a fence post and the other parent will fly up 25-30 feet with the squirrel body and chunk it across the yard. The chick will fly down and attack the squirrel body. They will do this over and over for hours eventually working higher and higher in the trees. They’ve learned that me bush hogging or the neighbors cutting hay means lots of field mice scrambling and easy picking.

 

[Puppers]

I saw one last week grab a catfish out of a pond and take it up in a tree. The fish got loose and fell right into a ditch and swam off. Wish I could have gotten it on camera.

 

[mcdawg22]

My in-laws live on Tibee creek in Lowndes Co. They have a regular pair of eagles that nest near where they live. We enjoy watching them raise their young, fun to watch the little ones grow up and learn to hunt. There is also a pair of Ospreys that nest near by. They will run the eagles off if they get too close to their nest. Mother Nature at her best.

One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen involved Ospreys and and Eagle. We were playing AC Read on Pensacola NAS and there was a Bald Eagle in the middle of the fairway that runs along Bayou Grande and is a favorite for nesting Ospreys. The Ospreys were dive bombing the Eagle constantly. Eventually the Eagle had enough, and to Shmuley’s, point when that thing flapped his wings to get airborne, I was amazed how huge it was. He decided it wasn’t worth it and sailed right over our heads.

 

[The Peeper]

This is a mating ritual supposedly for them. Its a form of "chicken" and proves if the potential mate is worth or not:

Looks like a carnival ride:

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

And mods, you're welcome, I didn't even mention the completely irrefutable scientific fact that American eagles love Trump and that's why we're seeing so many of them these days**


[just a joke, boys, no need to get your angry typing fingers warmed up]

 

[Darryl Steight]

This is a mating ritual supposedly for them. Its a form of "chicken" and proves if the potential mate is worth or not:

Looks like a carnival ride:

This is fake, right? If not, holy shat. That's wild.

 

[bolddogge]

I had one on the ground between my house and the pond in the front yard a week ago this past Sunday. Big rascal flew straight at the car as we were pulling in from church. I swear I could hear Lee Greenwood faintly singing as it was circling overhead before it disappeared over the trees.

 

[dorndawg]

And mods, you're welcome, I didn't even mention the completely irrefutable scientific fact that American eagles love Trump and that's why we're seeing so many of them these days**


[just a joke, boys, no need to get your angry typing fingers warmed up]

Clearly...

 

[vhdawg]

We saw a raptor show at Warwick Castle just outside Birmingham, England back in 2010, and they had an English-born American bald eagle flying around doing tricks, and when the show was over, it decided not to go back to ground and lit up in the branches of a tree in this little grove of trees on the property. Of course, people gathered underneath to gawk at the eagle, while some little birds flitted around it. Which was fun, right up until one of them annoyed the eagle by getting too close, and that eagle snatched it out of the air and commenced to consuming it right there above all the families with little children.

It was great, people were gasping and shrieking and covering their kids' eyes in horror. Fantastic entertainment.

 

[WilCoDawg]

That guy has an interesting show but he needs to work on his monotone speaking. He could put a meth head to sleep. I’m always curious how he affords all of the crap he buys and does. I know his ads have to help out now.


If you are intrigued by raptors, I encourage you to experience a falconry session, especially if you get to handle one. They’re amazing creatures. It’s cool watching someone squirrel hunt with them as well.

 

[ronpolk]

We saw one a couple of mornings last week on the Madison County side of the spillway. Wish I had pulled over for better pictures, but there was no way that I was going to fight the traffic coming from Rankin side to loop around for another pass.

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I don’t live too far away from the spillway and I’ve seen an eagle flying around my neighborhood a good bit lately. Probably the same bird.

 

[Xenomorph]

I thought this was going to be a scandal about a professor stalking coeds.

 

[Mjoelner]

One day while heading west on 82 by the catfish ponds (which aren't there anymore) just before the GTR exit, I happened to look out my right window and there was a bald eagle eye level with me with a weasel or otter in his talons. He was headed to the tree line of Catalpa Creek. Hwy 82 is elevated about 15 or 20 feet there which explains why he was eye level out of my passenger window. My first thought was "MERICA!". My second thought was that I wish I had seen him when I was coming up on him so I could have gotten my camera ready.

 

[DawgsGoneWild]

If your ever up around Keokuk, Iowa this time of year, go check out the bald eagles. They have festivals. You can sit at bars on the patio and drink beer and watch hundreds dive in the MS River for fish. It’s unbelievable.

 

[Pilgrimdawg]

I see them several times a year at our farm in Northern Noxubee County.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

We saw a raptor show at Warwick Castle just outside Birmingham, England back in 2010, and they had an English-born American bald eagle flying around doing tricks, and when the show was over, it decided not to go back to ground and lit up in the branches of a tree in this little grove of trees on the property. Of course, people gathered underneath to gawk at the eagle, while some little birds flitted around it. Which was fun, right up until one of them annoyed the eagle by getting too close, and that eagle snatched it out of the air and commenced to consuming it right there above all the families with little children.

It was great, people were gasping and shrieking and covering their kids' eyes in horror. Fantastic entertainment.

 

[Hugh's Burner Phone]

I thought this was going to be a scandal about a professor stalking coeds.

That's bald beavers.

 

[Bobby Ricigliano]

We saw a raptor show at Warwick Castle just outside Birmingham, England back in 2010, and they had an English-born American bald eagle flying around doing tricks, and when the show was over, it decided not to go back to ground and lit up in the branches of a tree in this little grove of trees on the property. Of course, people gathered underneath to gawk at the eagle, while some little birds flitted around it. Which was fun, right up until one of them annoyed the eagle by getting too close, and that eagle snatched it out of the air and commenced to consuming it right there above all the families with little children.

It was great, people were gasping and shrieking and covering their kids' eyes in horror. Fantastic entertainment.

That’s a cool castle.