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[fishinwrench]

I saw something several years back that really turned me off about bald Eagles.  We have a breeding population of Stripers here in Gravois creek and one Spring about 200 yards from the eagle nest I see a striper (too big to fly off with) drug up on an island with nothing but the eyeballs plucked out and a hole picked in its belly so it could gobble up the eggs.  The rest of it was left to rot in a place where the coons couldn't even get to it, the eagles never even came back to eat any more off of it, they just wanted those fresh eggs.    

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21 hours ago, BilletHead said:

              More cool migrating birds of prey info,

  Do you all know what a group of them migrating is called? 

  A kettle,

    BilletHead

Murder of crows....

[BilletHead]

1 minute ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Murder of crows....

         Yes and mob of crows too. 

BilletHead

[fishinwrench]

Nobody talks much about murdering crows anymore.   When I was a youngun we got permission to go shoot rats at the local landfill, so we grabbed .22's and headed out there.  When we got there we couldn't find any rats to shoot but there was a hundred crows flying about.  After burning up a couple of boxes of shells trying to shoot them out of the sky with .22's I ran home and grabbed the 12 ga. and all the 3" mag. #6's and #4's that the old man had in the gun cabinet.     

Pretty sure I gave that "murder" of crows that name on that day.  😊 That was fun!

[Devan S.]

I usually go crow blasting 3-4 times a year at least. Probably one of the most fun times a group of guys can have. Call until they bust you and then move a mile or so away....get covered in and go to calling again. 

[Gavin]

Eagles are scavengers. There is nothing happier than an eagle on a pile of dead fish! They will run the gulls and the vultures off and claim it. 

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15 hours ago, BilletHead said:

         Yes and mob of crows too. 

BilletHead

I always heard it was a murder of crows. 

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12 hours ago, Gavin said:

Eagles are scavengers. There is nothing happier than an eagle on a pile of dead fish! They will run the gulls and the vultures off and claim it. 

Just go to Eagle days when the river is frozen over and you can see that all day. 

[ness]

Yeah, our national symbol is a nasty old scavenger some of the time. Still better that a scrotum-headed turkey though. 

[Johnsfolly]

12 hours ago, Gavin said:

Eagles are scavengers. There is nothing happier than an eagle on a pile of dead fish! They will run the gulls and the vultures off and claim it. 

They hit the deer carcasses pretty hard here in Maryland.

Back in Missouri I had a run in with an eagle heading home from Barren Fork Creek. I turned a sharp corner. The eagle was feeding on a groundhog. When it saw me it tried to fly off with its prize. It couldn't fly quickly and all I saw was a windshield filled with eagle body and wings. It let go of the groundhog and gained enough elevation for me to miss hitting it.