Bald Eagle!

[fishermccann]

On Friday I was at the cottage on a Kawartha lake, and for the first time in the 30 odd years of going up there , I saw a Bald Eagle. For sure! through the binocs I saw it sitting on the ice 100yrds away picking at something to eat ( could not see what it was). After it ate for 15 min. it took off and the crows followed to clean up the scraps. What a cool sight it was, it had the wingspan of a Canada goose!

[limeyangler]

They are an awesome sight aren't they. I have some nesting in the back yard here.....i love watching the fights between them and the crows.

[Guest gbfisher]

Lots of them starting to show up. Nice to see. Wait till ya see a golden..... .......

[fishermccann]

I hope that it is not true, but I hear that they will drive away the osprey, anybody know the facts?

[hammercarp]

If they learn to steal the ospreys catch I guess it means a tougher time for the osprey but we have both at our cottage.

[lew]

Bald Eagles are one of the most beautiful birds anywhere and it's great to see them making their way into the Kawartha region and every year there seems to be more of them.

 

Here's 2 different birds I was able to get pictures of last summer near Peterboro.

 

There were a couple others there too but I wasn't able to get pictures of them. They were both large & brown but I don't know if they were young birds or females

 

 

 

 

[4thgen]

Always nice to see them. They have been nesting for a few years close to Lakefield.

[evster]

I saw what I think was a bald eagle last year in Turkey Point on Lake Erie. It flew overhead just at the tops of the trees, probably 15 meters up, carrying a fish. What a big powerful bird.

[bucktail]

Nice to see them making a comeback.

My friend saw 3 of them on the ice on Boshkung earlier this year.

We have one that shows up every Feb in fron of the Oakville water plant!

Havnt seen him in a few weeks so I think he moved on!

[Marc Thorpe]

Like this

Edited March 23, 2009 by marc thorpe

[Guest gbfisher]

ya just like that.....

[kemper]

There is at least one family I know of on Upper Buck.

 

Same place every year, cool to see

[ch312]

trails here in brantford have been closed due to a nesting pair in the area...

[carp-starter]

There are eagles by the hundred in the Annapolis Valley. At one time there were not many, if any but a farmer thought of a way of bringing them in. Right now, it is a zoo down there.

 

Here are some web sites that I have kept from the last few years.

 

carp-starter

 

Sheffield Mills

Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia

 

Search on

SHEFFIELD MILLS EAGLE WATCH

http://www.eaglens.ca/

 

http://www.annapolis-valley-vacation.com/eagle-watch.html

http://www.outdoorns.com/features/flying.htm

 

http://ca.maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?csz=S...&country=ca

 

 

http://www.outdoorns.com/features/winteractivity11.htm

http://www.gov.ns.ca/NATR/WILDLIFE/conserva/18-04-5.htm

 

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http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/nsbirds/feat02.htm

 

http://www.cbc.ca/thelens/program_261206.html

 

HE BALD EAGLES OF NOVA SCOTIA

 

 

 

About ten years ago, bald eagles in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley discovered that many of the valley's large commercial chicken farmers were disposing of a few dead chicks each day by depositing them out in their fields. Each farmer has a natural mortality of one or two percent among the chickens, and with millions of chickens being raised in the area the bald eagles were quick to catch on.

 

This bonanza of extra winter food began attracting hundreds of eagles that would normally spend their winters foraging along the Atlantic coast. The eagles began a daily circuit of the chicken farms, competing with each other for the new and easy source of food. Soon the word spread among birders, who came by the carload on weekends to witness the eagles.

 

Before long, local people organized Eagle Weekend, an annual event in late January that has attracted thousands of people eager to watch eagles at close range. Now between 400 and 600 eagles are counted here each winter, and a few have stayed to nest.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2002/01/27/...agle020127.html

[wiggler]

The last couple years I have seen a bald eagle on our lake just outside Plevna. Quite a sight...and HUGE

[youngvedder]

At my camp (just outside of Espanola) we saw our first one last year on labour day weekend. We've had the place 34 years and this was the first time.

 

Absolutely beautiful.

 

Cheers.

[Bob]

Brown ones are immature birds. Both male and female birds turn black with white head and tail when they mature, usually at 5 years of age. There are lots of them in this area and along the North Channel of Huron. At maturity, their wingspan is about six to seven feet, much bigger than a goose. Closest thing in size here is the turkey vulture. Lots of them here too.

[Ramble]

i've seen one hanging around the area between peterborough and lakefield since january.

 

Lew the juvies are brown for a few years before they get their white heads.

 

And goldens are HUGE. i've only seen 2, but the wingspan looked 5 feet or better. Impressive to say the least.

 

-Dave

[Whitespinnerbait]

The last couple of weeks of bass season 2008 , there was a Bald Eagle hunting around the Lake i was fishing...... :worthy: