Photo Phriday 121 - Golden Eagles
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Contrary to the life of mostly scavenging that we see from Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles are killing machines. When they're eating jackrabbits or ground squirrels we generally have no problems with them, but when they turn to pheasants or lambs, it can be a problem. No question, though, they are an impressive bird. I've had occasion to work on them in Alaska and Idaho. Tree nest in a ponderosa pine in Idaho. Cliff nest in southern Idaho (Birds of Prey Natural Area). Rock clifff nest in Arctic Alaska (Wulik River). Again, rock nest in Alaska. Cliff nest in Idaho. Adult golden eagle in Idaho. Two young eagles in cliff nest. Note prey items (jackrabbits, cottontails, and pheasants). Two adults fighting over a deer carcass.
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Re: Photo Phriday 121 - Golden Eagles
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Great pics, thanks for sharing!
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Re: Photo Phriday 121 - Golden Eagles
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The natives way of hiding in a pit covered and with bait close by edge of hole a and when eagle landed to bait eagle was grabbed by the legs. This was to harvest feathers
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Re: Photo Phriday 121 - Golden Eagles
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The natives way of hiding in a pit covered and with bait close by edge of hole a and when eagle landed to bait eagle was grabbed by the legs. This was to harvest feathers The hole they dug on edges and tops of cliffs are still intact today. I know where there are a few and the history of them catching them by the feet and taking feathers and letting them is incredible. I watch a nest each year from a canyon away and get some great pictures of the chicklets. Thanks for sharing your photos of the Day.
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Re: Photo Phriday 121 - Golden Eagles
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In your time in Asia, did you ever have the chance to meet any eagle hunters? Mongol or otherwise? k snow - In both Far Eastern Russia and in Mongolia, I never got to see the horseback falconers. I've seen videos of the Mongolians actually hunting wolves with their golden eagles. It's an impressive sight; would love to watch in person. Jack.
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Re: Photo Phriday 121 - Golden Eagles
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In your time in Asia, did you ever have the chance to meet any eagle hunters? Mongol or otherwise? k snow - In both Far Eastern Russia and in Mongolia, I never got to see the horseback falconers. I've seen videos of the Mongolians actually hunting wolves with their golden eagles. It's an impressive sight; would love to watch in person. Jack. You and I both would love to see it in person. I've watched the videos also of fox and wolf hunting, absolutely impressive. And their fur hats are way cool too.
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Re: Photo Phriday 121 - Golden Eagles
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I run deer stops on all my coyote snares. Therefore, red foxes rarely choke themselves down. A red fox in a snare, virtually always alive, gets ripped up quite often by golden eagles. Usually it's got a thousand punctures about the thorax and shoulders.
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I was elk hunting one fall in CO sitting next to a scree slide and I heard hoofs on rock, saw a golden eagle hovering about 75 yards across the mountain side and diving down. The scuffle ended up coming past me about 30 yards down, a golden trying to get an elk calf, elk calf ran into heavier tree cover below me and eagle following above it. It was a small calf and during the drought years so a very hungry eagle, never saw mom, killed a 5X5 bull same place an hour later.
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I think I saw a Steller’s Sea Eagle on Rotook Island. I walked out of the weather port in the morning and it was just going past. I saw it for one maybe two seconds and it was around a cliff out of sight. I can not say for sure that is what it was, but it wasn't like any eagle I ever saw. I saw a light cream colored eagle on Chirikof Island half a dozen times anyway. The three other guys on the island saw it too. I think it was a bald eagle that was off color. I saw it flying with a bald eagle one time. It was common for the fox to be ate by eagles on the islands when in traps. There are lots of eagles on those islands.
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Re: Photo Phriday 121 - Golden Eagles
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I run deer stops on all my coyote snares. Therefore, red foxes rarely choke themselves down. A red fox in a snare, virtually always alive, gets ripped up quite often by golden eagles. Usually it's got a thousand punctures about the thorax and shoulders.
Jack They do like fox, Only 2 snared this year. Eagles 2 Sage 0.
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Was out running traps on a fresh eight inches of powder in Wy years ago. Started seeing goat tracks running willy nilly in circles, and when I popped over the next rise, there were three goldens eating a hole in the chest of the speed goat. The doe wasn’t dead yet, at least she didn’t think she was, and when the eagles took off, there was blood squirting out of the hole they had started. I’m not very proud of how predators kill sometimes, but it was pretty gory!
The rancher I headquartered on those years, told me one time when we were together, that the eagles liked to sit on those rock outcroppings on those ant hill shaped buttes. One day, I hiked up to the top, being curious, and there were a number of eagle skeletons just below the rocks. I feel I can tell on him now that he has been dead for well over twenty years! Any sheepmen absolutely despise eagles and coyotes, both put a hurt on their pocketbook.
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Back in the 80’s the wildlife (state or feds?) wanted to try and re-establish goldens in western NC. They built a big cage off the Blue Ridge Parkway and put a mating pair in it for a while to get accustomed. They even turned a bunch of tame rabbits loose in the area. After a while they released them only to have the eagles leave the area for ever. Then the locals would ride around and catch the rabbits to eat them selves.
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Re: Photo Phriday 121 - Golden Eagles
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You have to go a long ways up the Wulik to find cliffs. Did you take time to fish while you were in the area? Only experience I've had with a golden was catching one in a trap. Wasn't too happy. Threw my parka over it and got the trap off. It flew away. Yeah, martentrapper. I had helicopter access to the upper end, put in and floated down to the coastal plain. And yes; fishing was very good, as was beachcombing for mammoth ivory. Jack
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