On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:10:23 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-12-31 12:41 PM, wrote:
>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 11:25:23 -0500, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/31/2016 10:12 AM, Nancy2 wrote:
>>>> ...maybe the sun was in its eyes....I didn't know they flew around in the daytime. I
>>>> thought they were night hunters. You can tell I don't know much about them. Bald
>>>> eagles are my bird of choice. ;-))
>>>>
>>>> N.
>>>>
>>> It depends on the type of owl. They are mostly nocturnal. However,
>>> there are a few species of owls that go hunting during the daytime. It
>>> depends on when their selected prey might be running around. They'll
>>> stir themselves especially if they have chicks to feed and they spot a
>>> squirrel or some field mice. Or, around here, marsh rats. They're
>>> somewhat like hawks in that regard.
>>>
>>> I remember looking out the back window and saying to my mom, OMG,
>>> There's a hawk sitting right there! It had landed right behind the
>>> house, outside the window. I guess it was having a rest. In the middle
>>> of the day. When it took flight the wingspan was about 3 feet across.
>>> All we could say was "Wow".
>>>
>>> Oh, and there are bald eagles nesting on Dataw.
>>>
>>> Happy New Year!
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> After people in the US hunting eagles from helicopters nearly wiped
>> out the eagle population, you were lucky ours were intact.
>
>
>Who makes up these factoids for you? They became a protected species
>almost 100 years ago, long before helicopters. Their biggest problem in
>the 20th century was DDT, as it was with many other creatures at the top
>of the food chain. While it did not affect them directly it caused them
>to lay thin shelled eggs that often broke before the young hatched.
>They were as rare here in southern Ontario as they were in the US. I saw
>lots of them out on Cape Breton Island and around Victoria BC.
>
>
>> I remember
>> them trucking about 100 bald eagles down to the US from Cape Breton to
>> restore numbers.
>
>
>How about 36 transplanted eagles.
>
>
>>We still have a golden eagle population and many
>> fish eagles (osprey) - common birds here aside from the bald eagles.
>
>Osprey are another one that was very rare around here but which made a
>huge comeback. Peregrine falcons were all but extinct here for years but
>are now quite common. I saw one this morning when I looked out my
>kitchen window.
>
There was also a misguided attempt to replace caribou in Maine, they
all died.