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Thursday, January 23. 2020

Eagle

From our pal wintering in Colorado, an eagle feasting on a goose on Sloan's Lake


Posted by Bird Dog at 07:00 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Traveling by train from Istanbul to London.
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This sounds like fun.
#1 feeblemind on 2020-01-23 08:37 (Reply)
Eagle 1 Goose 0.
#2 Claritas on 2020-01-23 10:18 (Reply)
Sloan Lake is just a mile or so west of Downtown Denver.
#3 Jay Dee (Link) on 2020-01-23 16:03 (Reply)
A bald eagle in the middle of Denver???

But...but...but we were assured by enviro-wackos that large raptors such as eagles and red hawks were soooo sensitive that any near-by human development would drive them to extinction!

Wrong again, Greenies! JERKS!!!

Large raptors can been seen all over the Denver area, snarfing up the "equally sensitive" Canada geese (pests), squirrels, rabbits and "endangered" prairie dogs! They've adapted quite nicely to a suburban lifestyle. I grew up in the country east of Boulder, CO and I see far more "sensitive wildlife" in the Burbs today, than I ever did in my wide-ranging hikes through the country and farm lands of my youth!
#4 Old Codger on 2020-01-23 19:46 (Reply)
I hope it was a Canada Goose
#5 SF Jeff on 2020-01-23 23:06 (Reply)
There's thousands of those geese in Kentucky. They don't even migrate; they just attack people, and shit all over the place. Somebody should start a company. Earl's Goose Busters. When a flock of those feathered pain in the asses are discovered, a hundred Bald Eagles will swoop down, and wreak havoc. By the time they're done, the geese will have decided that migrating isn't such a bad idea, after all.
#6 Ron Lieberman on 2020-01-23 23:37 (Reply)

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