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Bald Eagles (question for the experts) !
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:46 am
by RIP EM
I have 4 Bald Eagles that hang around one of my favorite duck holes !
3 of these birds,... the resting ducks pay absolulely no attention to !
The 4th, and by far, the largest eagle.... when he patrols this break,... Every duck on the lake (very large break ) goes completly berzerk !
I have seen this happen on 3 or 4 occasions !
Ya'll know what my question is !
Is this big, bad boy eating duck for dinner ?
I know there is nothing I can do about it if he is ! Just wondering if any of you have ever seen, or even heard of this before ?
Just curious
Rip Em !
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:52 am
by Bourbon
When we hunt in the Atchfalaya Basin, there are bald eagles everywhere. They definitely eat ducks. I have seen the same thing you are talking about, an eagle flying over and the ducks go crazy. Have heard stories of them taking dead ducks that were shot off the water. Pretty amazing site to see the bald eagle flying over the marsh.
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:57 am
by Chuckle12
At the Yazoo Wildlife Refuge Office in the delta, they have a mount of an eagle sitting on a brach holding a green-wing teal in his talons. Pretty cool mount.
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:34 am
by Ducks be us
Most all birds of prey would love to dine on a duck I imagine. Peranogan Falcons (fastest bird on the planet) can bring down a mallard(used to see a commercial as such)
Have a nice day!
bald eagle
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:18 am
by champcaller
I have heard they do do that. But once I was walking on a levee by an old sleugh and jumped about four wood ducks and right when they got up a hawk in a nearby tree swooped down and grabbed one. I was shocked!
Though at the same time, really cool.
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:22 am
by chopper30
I don't know about eagles, but we killed a goose a few weeks back and laid him on the levee about 30 yards down from us. We looked down there about 20 minutes later and a hawk was wearing him out.
Bald Eagle
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:50 am
by A5
I've had a bald eagle attack and take off with a foam turkey decoy. He went about three hundred yards before he realized something wasn't right and dropped it. If they would try and eat a turkey, I wouldn't put it past them to eat duck.
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:02 pm
by gamehog
I've seen eagles herd coots into a nice tight group, then swoop in for the easy pickins.
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:14 pm
by judge jb
the eagles around Reelfoot lake love duck season. they are notorious for picking up ducks before you can retrieve them... a pair of hunters were arrested last year for killing an eagle.....they are still in jail.......
judge jb
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:35 pm
by mudsucker
Gamehog,
I thought a cajun was the only person or thing that would eat a coot.
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:04 pm
by RedLeg84
obviously it was a coon-ass eagle!!!
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:51 am
by RIP EM
Judge,... Did you say "STILL" in Jail ????
Hummmmmmm !!!!
Guess I better resort to plan B !
Seriously,... I never once thought of taking a shot at the ol' boy,.... but if cussin one of em was against the law,.... I plead "NO CONTEST" !
THANKS EVERYONE !
Rip Em !
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:44 pm
by Bustin' Ducks
Guess them boys @ Reelfoot NEVER went over their bag limit..If so, they'd just call in an Eagle to "fix" their dilemma...