re: Whats up with all the bald eagles?

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They are everywhere. People just rarely glace up to notice them.

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There is a huge cell tower across the street from my shop that has a next in it

If you kill any bird of prey, you are a dick and you get an automatic native curse.

Enjoy them while u can. We actually had a juvenile hang with us to snag struggling throw backs on Mobile bay and the kids duck hunting said one grabbed a duck they shot they same day

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you get an automatic native curse.

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In all seriousness, I saw an episode of Texas Law (I think that’s the name - it’s where they follow game wardens around) and they recovered a dead bald eagle. According to the game warden, once a lab has a look at it to see cause of death, certain parts of the bird are donated to Native American tribes who use them for different things. I thought that was interesting.

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There is a huge cell tower across the street from my shop that has a next in it

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I was gonna post the same thing

Is your shop close to the river off of HWY 23?

There’s some nests at Kincaid lake

I know a couple places up north you can pick up hundreds dead under wind generators so it must be OK to kill them. I hear once they go bald they’re tough .

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I’m for the size restriction rather than a creel limit.

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Unless they’re going to enforce restrictions against the commercial harvesters, they need to leave recreational harvesters alone. The 3-4 I shoot every year isn’t the problem.

There’s one I watch daily in downtown thibodaux. It’s flies right over the bayou about 50 feet up. Beautiful sight.

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Terrebonne parish is ground zero for Louisiana eagles Majority head way north for summer but some stick around I remember when seeing an eagle was a big deal

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Very true. Bayou Black swamp and the area off Prospect between Bayou Blue and 182 have quite a lot of eagles. Quick story, I am on Savanne Rd and about to turn on Valhi when I see this eagle flipping and having a hard time flying about 20’ off the ground. I thought I was going to have to call LWF but as I got closer I noticed he had a live egret in his claws. It was flapping and causing erratic flying. Felt like I should have been in Yellowstone watching it.