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A bald eagle. We had finished our hunt and were going to pick up decoys and he buzeed them at about 15 feet.  Waaaaaay cool. Hunting: Exercising dominion over creation at 2800 fps. | ||
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We see 'em almost every time we hunt nowadays.....we watched one buzz a cripple the other day but it dove......he perched at the river;s edge for a few minutes and then flew away.....must not have been overly hungry. | |||
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I have had eagles take downed ducks from my decoy spread on two occasions and had one dive bomb my dog while she was retrieving a bird. I was going do dust it if it grabbed my dog but it was just bluffing. It's neat to see them come in to the decoys with that big wingspan. | |||
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Pretty rare to see them in the Mississippi delta Hunting: Exercising dominion over creation at 2800 fps. | |||
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There are getting to be more and more of them around. I seen one in northern LA last winter that is the farthest south that I have seen them. The eagles around here feed on ducks mostly golden eye, mergansers, and mallards during the winter and I'm sure that they get plenty of wounded birds during hunting season. | |||
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Some of you might find this interesting - http://www.reelfoot.com/eagles.htm. That's Reelfoot Lake in NW Tenn, formed by an earthquake in the early 1800s. The tale is the quake was so bad that the Mississippi River turned around and ran north for a time. It's also the state's most well known duck and goose hunting spot. The eagles are seen during duck season and make a living off cripples. A very long time ago I used to hunt a blind within sight of what they called an eagle "hacking station". Farther south they also have or had eagle nests at Wappanocca National Wildlife Refuge on the Miss River just north of Memphis. You'd see them in tall cypress trees on the lake's edge there. The place was once home to arguably the most famous duck club in the Miss. Flyway. It's where Nash Buckingham, the author, grew up hunting and wrote about in his many books. Eagles are not common here but they're not unknown in the Miss Flyway. | |||
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I see them often in the fall, spring and winter. Usually out on the lake while duck hunting or in trees in my back yard. I'm near Nashville, TN and had one here this summer. That was a first. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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