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Here's a link to what I was talking about:
http://www.rense.com/general30/giant.htm Another legend is born. -- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways) "john smith" wrote in message ... Have you heard about the supposed "super eagles" that have been reported in Alaska? Supposedly the size of a small Cessna. Now that would be a bird strike! For Jay's benefit... Is a small Cessna bigger or smaller than a small Piper? |
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Jay Honeck wrote: (snip)*** Speaking of birds, wow, are the bald eagles everywhere all the sudden. After rarely seeing them in my life, now we've got 'em just hanging around the airport, sitting on the beacon tower. I taxied past one the other day that looked danged-near as big as us. jay...the lake mcbride area is pretty infested with them. there is also a "raptor center" there too. since the lake has been pretty well frozen-over, they might be expanding their diet from fish to rats and such. just guessing. dan |
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Bob
Are you sure 'Tom' is not having a midnight meal ) Big John `````````````````````````````````````````````````` `````````` On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:51:31 -0500, "Bob Chilcoat" wrote: We have a pretty active bird feeder, with several different types of seed, in the backyard near a large picture window. We get a variety of birds ranging from sparrows and finches to woodpeckers, cardinals and jays. Some mornings there is a small pile of feathers on the ground near it, perhaps indicating that the red-tailed hawk that lives in the area is also feeding there (or perhaps the owl we hear at night sometimes). At any rate, the birds seem to have been really chowing down this year. I have to fill the feeder at least once a week. Some of the birds actually look fat. Do you think they have to recalculate their performance and W&B as they bulk up? Will their takeoff runs increase as the weather warms up and the density altitude rises? Enquiring minds want to know. |
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Redtails rarely take out birds, and almost never songbirds (they're too awkward to catch them). Owls are even more
unlikely to kill birds. Both raptors prefer rodents, and small owls would have to be near starving to eat anything else. Of course, a Great Horned owl will add skunks and cats to the larder, but I've never heard of one eating birds. Your raider is probably something like a sharp-shinned hawk that you haven't seen (or maybe your "redtail" is really a sharpie). George Patterson George are we talking about the same bird? The Redtail hawks we have around here are anything but awkward, and they definitly prey on birds. I have witnessed them taking out Bobwhite quail on many occasions while in the field running a tractor and also while sitting in a deer blind. It is a sight to behold and nature at its best, (worst)?. They'll hover over tractors tilling the fields and at the first sight of movement they'll fold their wings and come screaming in for the kill, whether the target is a field mouse, baby rabbit, snake or meadow lark. Story time: Last summer I was running a brush beater and flushed a rabbitt. As I watched it scamper off, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a blurred streak that startled the crap out of me. It was so close that it passed within six feet. The streaking hawk was off its mark and with talons out stretched it clipped a sagebrush plant and hit the ground rolling... right up next to the also startled rabbit who promptly exited stage left. I'm not sure who was shook up the worst; me, the rabbit or the Redtail. I grew up on a commercial turkey farm. We raised thousands of them at a time and predators were a real problem.. My father would hire professional trappers and use electric fences to deal with coyotes, stray dogs & badgers. They killed an enormous number of birds. He even hired highschool kids to sleep in the turkey feeders armed with shotguns that had flashlights taped to their barrels. (Disclaimer: this was back in the sixties). He had one critter that outwitted all of them for a long time. Dad finally talked to an old timer who told him to place coyote traps on top of the fence posts. A few nights went by and then one morning he found the culprit hanging dead from a post. It was a Great Horned Owl that had perched on the wrong post to singleout his prey before dining. The predator loss stopped for some time afterwards. That owl had killed 10's of turkeys before it was finally caught. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Speaking of birds, wow, are the bald eagles everywhere all the sudden.
After rarely seeing them in my life, now we've got 'em just hanging around the airport, sitting on the beacon tower. I taxied past one the other day that looked danged-near as big as us. jay...the lake mcbride area is pretty infested with them. there is also a "raptor center" there too. since the lake has been pretty well frozen-over, they might be expanding their diet from fish to rats and such. just guessing. Yeah, I suppose McBride is just a hop-skip-jump for a bird with an 8 foot wingspan. Dang, bald eagles are beautiful -- but I sure hope they stay the heck out of my way. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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