Eagles and Venison

  • dave-barber
    St Francis, MN
    Posts: 2100
    April 11, 2007 at 1:50 am #1254353

    I have to apologize right off… was going to turn around and take a picture… but I was running late bringing my daughter to her 4H horse project meeting.

    Driving up CR 47 North of St Francis, my daugther casually says… “an eagle”. Seeing her out of the corner of my eye… I saw that she was not looking up but down to the right. There it was. An adult bald eagle sitting on top of a road killed deer 3 feet of the shoulderless road. Driving by at about 55 MPH… this think was sitting on top of a deer eating as my front tires whizzed by not 4 feet from this big bird.

    Now… I have seen vultures and crows eating road kill and I have even seen a hawk dive down and pick up a dead squirrel off the center of a road and fly away with it. I have never thought of a big bald eagle eating dead deer meat… let alone 4 feet away from a semi-heavily traveled county road.

    Anway… my boring story for the night.

    rivereyes
    Osceola, Wisconsin
    Posts: 2782
    April 11, 2007 at 2:18 am #559367

    gotcha covered…. this was earlier this winter… roadside roadkill…

    bradg
    Posts: 507
    April 11, 2007 at 3:13 am #559390

    It is quite interesting that it didn’t fly away as you approached!!! I would think that it would fly away and then come back when the cost was clear much like crows and such do????

    At any rate, cool sighting. and awesome picture rivereyes

    Coreyc
    La Crosse/Amery, WI
    Posts: 62
    April 11, 2007 at 4:57 am #559413

    Eagles are primarily a scavenging bird….wasn’t it Roosevelt who proposed the Turkey to be the national bird?

    mnfishhunt
    Brooklyn Park, MN
    Posts: 525
    April 11, 2007 at 8:52 am #559436

    this is a good reason to move a deer way off the road if you hit one, I have heard a lot of stories about raptors getting hit by vehicles once they take off from feeding on the road kill. Personally I have taken every deer I have hit, and disposed of them away from the roads, or butcherd the ones I could salvage. I just hope more people do the same.
    just my .02
    thanks, Mike

    GNFISN
    Posts: 208
    April 11, 2007 at 11:54 am #559461

    I’ve seen that here in northern Wis. quite a few times , I guess if the pickins’ get slim …

    jwmii
    La Crosse, Wi
    Posts: 177
    April 11, 2007 at 12:03 pm #559463

    Quote:

    wasn’t it Roosevelt who proposed the Turkey to be the national bird?


    I believe it was Ben Franklin?

    fishman1
    Dubuque, Iowa
    Posts: 1030
    April 11, 2007 at 12:32 pm #559477

    Quote:

    Quote:

    wasn’t it Roosevelt who proposed the Turkey to be the national bird?


    I believe it was Ben Franklin?

    Yup, it was old Ben that lobbied for the wild turkey. While I realize that most of us on this site love and appreciate the wild turkey can you imagine what it would have been like with the wild turkey as our national bird? Turkeys instead of eagles on everything from the presidential seal to our money.

    Eyehunter

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18621
    April 11, 2007 at 1:10 pm #559498

    Bald Eagles are well known scavengers. Carcasses, gutpiles, dead fish. Totally normal. Seen it a thousand times.

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