I like to take pics, usually when I'm out fishing. I took a young lady fishing last year in the fall and she bought her dogs, which kept her attention as much as fishing did. Well for me it was not really boring but not real exciting either. So I grabbed the phone and took pictures. For the life of me I can't get them uploaded though. Then a few weeks later I was on the same river and a bunch of Eagles decided to take up residence. Fish were slow that day but I managed to study the eagles more than I ever have in my life. Interesting birds. They don't like humans (or maybe boats?) because I could NOT get closer than about 1/8 of a mile to any of them; they'd watch me closely and then take off, fly around a while, then land further down river on a tree limb. Watched them grab fish off the water, exactly like in "the movies". I caught a small trout and it was bleeding, but I released it. I guess it didn't make it because one of the eagles grabbed it right outta the water maybe 100' from the boat. They are BIG, bigger than I thought. But the most interesting thing....their call. They talk to each other like most birds do, but what is so odd (to me) is that, well Hawks, there is no mistaking their call, you know a hawk from a mile away. An owl, you know them too. Osprey, they have their own call too. I was floating on the river and kept hearing birds, the normal, like sparrows, chickadees, etc. So I start looking around and sure enough at the top of the tree is an eagle calling, and then a little ways upriver from me another was calling, they were "talking", they sound like common sparrows more or less. For as big and majestic as they are, they have a call that "sounds" NOTHING like what you'd think. As if watching them on the river wasn't enough, on the way back I come up one one standing on top of a dead deer on the side of the road having lunch. I did not know Eagles would resort to road kill. I asked a game and fish guy about it at work and he said yes they will, they are not known to often but they will...they are opportunists and will eat about anything if it's easily available and if they're hungry enough.
I can't get anything to load. Hmm. I'll work on it, kind of a cool picture with the sun rays coming through the trees.
