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Bald Eagle hunting coots.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 2/4/24 at 8:09 pm
Went to Guntersville this weekend to take some pictures of some white pelicans. As my luck would have it they were all in the middle of the lake so I drove over to where one of the eagle nests is located. As luck would have it one was taking in the sun on a limb.
Was also lucky enough to see a juvenile eagle fly by with a fresh killed coot in his talons.
Bonus banded hen mallard.
Was also lucky enough to see a juvenile eagle fly by with a fresh killed coot in his talons.
Bonus banded hen mallard.
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Posted on 2/4/24 at 8:11 pm to highcotton2
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Bald Eagle hunting coots
I originally read that as one bad arse group of coots.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:29 am to highcotton2
You take some fine pictures. Thanks for posting them.
I’d like to have some coots to make a poule d’eau’ gumbo.
I shot a rabbit once while I was driving a tractor. When I jumped off of the tractor to retrieve rabbit an eagle swooped over and grabbed it ten feet in front of me.
I’d like to have some coots to make a poule d’eau’ gumbo.
I shot a rabbit once while I was driving a tractor. When I jumped off of the tractor to retrieve rabbit an eagle swooped over and grabbed it ten feet in front of me.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 5:27 am to X123F45
quote:I read it as bald eagle hunting coons
I originally read that as one bad arse group of coots.
Great pictures
Posted on 2/5/24 at 7:09 am to highcotton2
Awesome pictures. Thanks
except for that first pic, he looks like he is staring right at you.
except for that first pic, he looks like he is staring right at you.
This post was edited on 2/9/24 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 2/5/24 at 7:18 am to highcotton2
Very nice pictures! I got a picture of one (bald eagle)in a tree on my property last March.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 7:29 am to highcotton2
Great pictures.
Bald eagles always look so pissed off. They know whats up.
Bald eagles always look so pissed off. They know whats up.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 7:31 am to highcotton2
We had eagles in the damned decoys just about every day in Washington State. They would, from time to time, manage to actually pick a decoy up for a foot or so. It was fun to watch but made decoying birds very difficult. We were told once by a Federal Game warden adjacent to McNary NWR that we were harassing those eagles. Seriously. We were hunting ducks in an area designated as open to duck hunting using a legal and common method of hunting ducks and apparently we were violating a federal law. He did not make a case of it so I am not certain that he was being serious but he said it...and it happened almost every time I hunted the area at some point in the day.
I got the same speech about a porpoise in the pass at St. Andrews Sound by a Florida FWS Agent. We were being checked and a porpoise came up alongside the boat and just stayed there watching the proceedings. Game warden said we had to leave the area because our being there was harassing that porpoise. Again, I do not know if he was serious or not but we did indeed leave after he finished with us. If he was it would be impossible to fish in Florida because you can't stop a boat for more than a few seconds without a damned porpoise coming alongside looking for an easy meal.
I got the same speech about a porpoise in the pass at St. Andrews Sound by a Florida FWS Agent. We were being checked and a porpoise came up alongside the boat and just stayed there watching the proceedings. Game warden said we had to leave the area because our being there was harassing that porpoise. Again, I do not know if he was serious or not but we did indeed leave after he finished with us. If he was it would be impossible to fish in Florida because you can't stop a boat for more than a few seconds without a damned porpoise coming alongside looking for an easy meal.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 7:40 am to highcotton2
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white pelicans.
My first season of duck hunting in New Mexico was my first experience on any scale with white pelicans. They were thick as fleas anywhere there was a sizeable body of water. I noticed that ducks avoided them like the plague...when they would swim toward rafting ducks the ducks and coots would get out of their way in a hurry. I asked a NM Game Warden about it at Bitter Lake NWR once and he claimed that white Pelicans would eat ducks, especially coots. Never saw one do it but I have seen huge rafts of ducks leave an area when the Pelicans started to move in among them.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 7:55 am to highcotton2
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fresh killed coot in his talons.
Saw this happen fishing in Lake Boeuf once. Flock of coot took off for no apparent reason. Then, I saw the white flash coming down at an almost vertical angle. Smokes one in the air and flys back up. Coot spiraled down to the water like a guy caught up in a partially opened parachute. Eagle circled a couple times the swooped in a picked it up before an alligator got it.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 8:45 am to highcotton2
Great pics. A few ago in front of my camp there were dozens of coots hanging around. A eagle would swoop down and they would all go under. It was like the eagle was fricking with them as he never actually grabbed one.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 8:46 am to highcotton2
Had a HUGE bald eagle swoop down in pond behind house yeserday and pick a fish off the surface, I assumed it was a big shad.
Yesterday afternoon I was fishing and found two 8-9 inch crappie dead on ground near the pone. One obviously had some marks on it. One had no sign of being picked up by something with big ol talons. They were pretty fresh so I have to think it was the eagle did it, but it just left em on the ground in the wide open.
Yesterday afternoon I was fishing and found two 8-9 inch crappie dead on ground near the pone. One obviously had some marks on it. One had no sign of being picked up by something with big ol talons. They were pretty fresh so I have to think it was the eagle did it, but it just left em on the ground in the wide open.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 8:51 am to AwgustaDawg
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he claimed that white Pelicans would eat ducks, especially coots. Never saw one do it
Posted on 2/5/24 at 8:56 am to tigerfoot
quote:yep, same thing another time. Was looking for lake runners and fishing the blinds. Saw an eagle sitting on one that was in my line. When I got to it to fish, noticed a sacalait on the platform so I got on it to check it out. Measured 12” from gill plate to tail because the head was gone. So, it had to be a 14-15” black. You dont see many that big in Lake Boeuf, but that eagle sure did.
crappie dead on ground near the pone
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:08 am to highcotton2
Beautiful pictures, thanks. In the second pic he looks like he was pissed off and ready to fly right to you.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 12:08 pm to highcotton2
nice shots!
I saw a Cooper's Hawk at Pensacola Beach yesterday. First good pics I've taken with my new nikon coolpix p950
also saw some bufflehead ducklings the other day in Pensacola Bay.
I saw a Cooper's Hawk at Pensacola Beach yesterday. First good pics I've taken with my new nikon coolpix p950
also saw some bufflehead ducklings the other day in Pensacola Bay.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 1:17 pm to Funky Tide 8
Great shot of that Cooper's Hawk.
When I first got to the Eagle nest one of the Eagles was doing a little home improvement work. The light was not in my favor.
When I first got to the Eagle nest one of the Eagles was doing a little home improvement work. The light was not in my favor.
This post was edited on 2/5/24 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 2/5/24 at 3:41 pm to highcotton2
them sumbitches wear the ducks out down at the wax. We pulled up to the camp after a hunt once and there was an eagle plucking a gadwall on our porch
Posted on 2/5/24 at 4:55 pm to X123F45
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Bald Eagle hunting coots
I was hoping to see a bald eagle taking down a coot. Great pictures though. Thanks for sharing.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 6:25 pm to highcotton2
Great shots, cotton!
4-5 years ago, we had a bald eagle nest about 2-3 miles north of our house on a pretty rural road. Me and my little girl would ride up there on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and just pull off on the side of the road and watch for 30 minutes or so. Cool creatures.
4-5 years ago, we had a bald eagle nest about 2-3 miles north of our house on a pretty rural road. Me and my little girl would ride up there on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and just pull off on the side of the road and watch for 30 minutes or so. Cool creatures.
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