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cshenk

Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> 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.

We have a fair nesting set of bald eagles right here in Virginia Beach
and around it. I think it's 4 breeding couples now? They move about
so sometimes are in one or another of the cities.

Big controversy was a fellow who bought a house up along Great Neck and
had a dead tree that needed to come out before it took out his
neighbor's house. There were remnants of a big nest. He had the city
check it and they said to take the tree out. He did and some around
him went apeshit saying it was a bald eagle nest and they might come
back.

Um, it was a 7-10 year old nest and the tree was DEAD and bald eagles
do not nest in dead trees.

I guess 4 breeding couples arent much but we are excited about it!

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