Does anybody know eagles?

**old goat** · 12-19-2017, 09:48 PM

Originally Posted by OldSteve

Ospreys are very easy to ID in the field with a bit of practice. Osprey wing profile has a crook, sorta like a gull. No other raptor (an imprecise term) has such wing profile.

We've had a pair at Donner Lake for quite a while. And a lot of gulls. I fairly frequently think I see one of the osprey soaring until it gets close and I can see the body or it lands on the water and floats. But then I'm no birder.

**Tippster** · 12-20-2017, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by RustyGroomer

This crow ate really well this summer. Watched him every night.

Odd looking crow.

**old goat** · 12-30-2017, 11:47 AM

A bald eagle flew by my window this morning.

**Benny Profane** · 01-27-2018, 07:53 PM

This is crazy. Second sighting. Same thing, two of them jostling near the ground before they flew away. Except this time, I witnessed it from the fast lane somewhere in nowhere Iowa on I80. Convinced it was a bald eagle, same white tail, same size, ten feet from the car at its closest.

**iceman** · 01-28-2018, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Tippster

Odd looking crow.

It ain't a crow. It's a phartridge.

**iceman** · 01-28-2018, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

A bald eagle flew by my window this morning.

The eagle flies on Friday.

**iceman** · 01-28-2018, 12:56 PM

It sounds uncomfortable, but we've got ospreys coming out of our ass around our place in Mass.

https://www.massaudubon.org/get-outd...osprey-project

**Benny Profane** · 01-28-2018, 01:25 PM

You think it's uncomfortable, but just try being a fish.

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**refried** · 01-28-2018, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

This is crazy. Second sighting. Same thing, two of them jostling near the ground before they flew away. Except this time, I witnessed it from the fast lane somewhere in nowhere Iowa on I80. Convinced it was a bald eagle, same white tail, same size, ten feet from the car at its closest.

Probably cleaning up road kill, Around here 4 or 5 of them will have nothing but bones left in two or three days

**BigDaddy** · 01-28-2018, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

It sounds uncomfortable, but we've got ospreys coming out of our ass around our place in Mass.

https://www.massaudubon.org/get-outd...osprey-project

**GeezerSteve** · 01-28-2018, 04:45 PM

We've been watching two baldies sitting on fence posts from our front window the past 3 weeks.

Originally Posted by iceman

It sounds uncomfortable, but we've got ospreys coming out of our ass around our place in Mass.

Not this time of year. They flew to South America, Cuba or Florida in the fall. Look for nesting pairs to return to Mass starting in April. Some migrants might fly through a few weeks earlier than that. Good see nesting Osprey populations increasing in your area.