Scantlings

Courtesy of Proptalk.... What a great time-waster !

Berry College in Georgia had two bald eagles create a nest on their campus in 2013. Eagle nests are huge – much larger than your regular robin’s nest. They can be bigger than 15 feet across and weigh as much as three tons. Berry College did one of the coolest things ever and set up an eagle cam

http://www.berry.edu/eaglecam/

IrieMon wrote:Courtesy of Proptalk.... What a great time-waster !

Berry College in Georgia had two bald eagles create a nest on their campus in 2013. Eagle nests are huge – much larger than your regular robin’s nest. They can be bigger than 15 feet across and weigh as much as three tons. Berry College did one of the coolest things ever and set up an eagle cam

http://www.berry.edu/eaglecam/

We have a permanent eagle nest across the harbor from us. We have a large pair of binoculars trained on it all year round. Fun to watch the little (that is a relative term) eaglets pop up and try to fly. Eagles are a really large bird up close and personal. I never understood all the fuss and worry about bothering them. They don't get bothered by people, they do the bothering. We love them. Kind of think of them as some of our pets. I bet they think the same of us.

Nope, they're trying to think of a way of eating you.

SloopJonB wrote:Nope, they're trying to think of a way of eating you.

So true ("hey babe, if we could take that one down we would eat like KINGS!")

hmmm...Eagles appear

chart plotter goes missing

coincidence?

I don't think so...

Soñadora wrote:hmmm...Eagles appear

chart plotter goes missing

coincidence?

I don't think so...

Rick,
The eagles were here when we moved in back in 1997.....

But that was an interesting idea!

Kim

kimbottles wrote:

Soñadora wrote:hmmm...Eagles appear

chart plotter goes missing

coincidence?

I don't think so...

Rick,
The eagles were here when we moved in back in 1997.....

But that was an interesting idea!

Kim

They have been watching the crows, now they know how to use crowbars, and they are way bigger.

SloopJonB wrote:Nope, they're trying to think of a way of eating you.

There is a certain nonchalance that comes with being at the top of the food chain.

Here is our new Osprey Cam.

http://www.wolfbaycamera.com/

This is the the link to the first osprey cam that the city set up. RIght next to the elementary school and firehouse.

http://www.ospreycamera.com/

I've got a tree right at the waters edge in front of the house that the Osprey's fish from very successfully and this season there has been a fine young bachelor osprey really showing off at dusk and I'm hoping he will attract a mate and start a nest. His antics and bragging manner as to what a good fisher and provider he would be are fun to watch. I may have to fit an old wooden shipping pallet in the limbs at the top to get the nest building started.

When I moved here in the early 70's the sight of an eagle was a rare treat. Now we see them nearly every day. The annual count at Brackendale, about 40 miles from here, is now into 4 figures. My wife watched one grab a juvenile gull in mid-air and fly off with it a few years ago - quite a sight. It was right beside the ferry terminal in Horseshoe bay. Watching them fishing in the islands is quite a show too.

The lady down the beach from our old beach house has 2 dogs, one lage shepard mix and another small 2-30 pound mixed breed. She walks them on the beach every day. One day she came down the beach witht he small dog on a leash. I asked why the leash because most people on our beach ignore the leash law. She said she was walking the dogs one day when an eagle swooped down aimed right at the small one. She managed to throw her arms up and yell and run at the eagle and scare him off. So now she uses a leash.

If the tide, wind, and sunlight were right the eagles would use an old snag in front of our house to fish from. Always an amazing sight. The snag is just to the right of the sun, with its branches pointing south. We left it standing just so the eagles and kingfishers had a place to fish from.

Leaving them standing at the waters edge is a good thing. We have 3 dead trees around the point and the eagles and ospreys will use one of them depending on winged, sun and other conditions. Always a pleasure to watch them fish.

I've got a big hemlock with one particular branch that has become the favourite perch of a great blue heron. That sucker still startles me when it squawks and takes off.

There is a Cooper's Hawk that lives alone in our garden, we're hoping she/he finds a mate. It does a great job munching pidgeons and other small stuff. It lives in a pair of ancient 150' eukaliptus trees. Further towards the harbor there is a solitary euke that has at least 6 blue heron nests in it, they just returned from wherever they go in the winter. It's fun listening the the racket the herons make whe the hawk flies over the nests, they do a good job of warning off the hawk. They also do a good job of driving off the raccoons that climb up to steal eggs, although we have found dead herons and dead raccoons beneath the tree from the battles.

We've read that Cooper's Hawks keep the birds and rodents that eat Hummingbirds away, and my Admiral loves hummingbirds, so we're happy it's there. We must have 20-30 hummingbirds at our two feeders each day, Miss Maddison loves watching them.

the favourite perch of a great blue heron

I am on the marina committee at EYC in Annapolis.... blue herons are majestic, but.... couldn't evolution have given them better hygiene-sense ? How much cr-p can a bird produce on a daily basis ?

Seems every time I check the eagle-cam, Mom and/or Dad are always "home".... they should probably get a baby-sitter, sitting at home with the kids all day/night will drive ya batty

IrieMon wrote:
I am on the marina committee at EYC in Annapolis.... blue herons are majestic, but.... couldn't evolution have given them better hygiene-sense ? How much cr-p can a bird produce on a daily basis ?

No Shit!