re: Bald Eagles

I work right in between Lake Palourde and Amelia. On a blue bird day when the thermals are just right, it's very common to see anywhere from 2 to 8 eagles soaring. If the door to my office is open, I usually hear them first. On many occasions I've seen them grabbing fish right out of the river. The site of them never gets old. We are very lucky to have the numbers of eagles that we have down here. The 2011 Louisiana Eagle Expo is coming up on February 10-12, 2011. You can visit cajuncoast.com for more info.

Hey man, don't make fun of them! They try really hard

They're massive

There's a pair of them on the west end of Cross Lake in Shreveport that I watch every week while they're here. They can catch some surprisingly huge fish and still fly.

They have a nest in a huge pine tree on an island but they aren't nesting this year that I can see. We see them every year. This year they're fully mature and freaking HUGE. But the Osprey still outfishes them.

There is actually a nest behind my parrents house. My neighbor claims he saw one catch a woodduck mid flight. My dad has a 12 acre rabbit pen and has seen it catch rabbits on several different occasions. also when i used to run equipt in the cane field when you would cut the last of a square of cane they would hover low and catch the rabbits as they run out.

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How common are they in Louisiana?

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pretty common these days, though not as common as black bears

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There is one that hangs out and has a nest in the brake in the corner of of 310 and i10 on the bonnet carret coming into nola

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Saw him there last Friday. Perched in that Cyprus tree a few feet from that gigantic nest he built over the years. I had apartments at LSU smaller than that nest!

Saw an eagle snag a salmon from a float plane when I was in Alaska. Probably the coolest thing I have ever seen in person in the outdoors. I remember thinking there was a lot in montana and canada but damn, they are everywhere in Alaska.

eta......just read and learned a lot about eagles. Says the northern ones are bigger and migrate south and the southern ones are smaller and migrate north.

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If I'm not mistaken, I believe that Louisiana has the 2nd highest eagle population next to
Alaska

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this is from 2007, surprised at floridas count.

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I have been seeing them in dularge a lot at the pass couple of years

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I saw a pair a couple of years ago on the south end of Lost Lake.

I saw one in a tree Between Thibodaux and Raceland and I saw another one in a feild between Thibodaux and Houma. It makes sence that where there are a lot of nutria there would be some big arse predetory birds.