MBC Dilute Plumage Bald profile photo.

MBC Dilute Plumage Bald profile photo.
the Lower K. Legend. MBC Photo
Showing posts with label Raptor Identification Quiz?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raptor Identification Quiz?. Show all posts

Friday, October 24, 2014

Over 30 Bald Eagles in the back yard (Matt Honan)






Uploaded on Jun 27, 2008

This video was recorded in Unalaska, Alaska. Google it. A bunch of bald eagles show up in our back yard. You get to hear a lot of the bald eagles talking. My kids get really close to them, they must really want more red salmon. Right now the salmon are running upstream to spawn so most of the locals are set-netting on the beach and smoking/canning/grilling some sockeye. In this video the native Aleuts were subsistence fishing and drying out the fillets. The Aleuts were not using the heads and guts and that is what the eagles were eating.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Golden Eagle sub-adult.



Here, Don has a great shot of the Golden Eagle, this bird has a lot of feather ware and you can see sub-adult feathers coming in. The first year birds have larger wing areas for learning flight, and as the birds get older the feathers shorten up a bit for more controlled and aerodynamic flight.


Golden Eagle, originally uploaded by djbartling.
Don Bartling, GOEA. 2 year old.