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Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house #6731220
01/16/20 02:35 PM
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Been around 40 turkeys around here and a bald eagle killed one today.
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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Bruce T] #6731223
01/16/20 02:42 PM
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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Bruce T] #6731230
01/16/20 02:48 PM
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They have to eat also. I have no problem with it.

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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Bruce T] #6731242
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The golden eagles in CA took their share of wild turkeys. I never saw a kill but I saw them hunting them. A young turkey would be easy pickins for any eagle.

I couldn't find it but I've seen a picture of a golden eagle with a drake mallard's head and neck in its beak.... the mallard looks like a young teal in the beak. Big birds.

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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Bruce T] #6731287
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I watched a bald eagle take down a full grown goose in flight while I was goose hunting.


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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Bruce T] #6731289
01/16/20 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce T
I watched a bald eagle take down a full grown goose in flight while I was goose hunting.

That must have been something to see


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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: 330-Trapper] #6731291
01/16/20 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
Originally Posted by Bruce T
I watched a bald eagle take down a full grown goose in flight while I was goose hunting.

That must have been something to see

It was.Sure wished I had a video camera.


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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Bruce T] #6731294
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Locally the eagles sure are getting thick. I now see nests even in marginal areas. They are all over my dead piles nowadays, too. Something I never saw years ago. They're getting to be like crows around here. Well alittle better but you get my drift.

Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Bruce T] #6731296
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An immature golden eagle swooped for my turkey decoy in the badlands of North Dakota. It dove at the decoy with talons opened but must have realized it wasn't real as it didn't strike it or maybe it saw me. Wish I would had a camera to record it.

Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Bruce T] #6731300
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Plenty of Turkeys around

Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Getting There] #6731302
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Originally Posted by Getting There
They have to eat also. I have no problem with it.

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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: 330-Trapper] #6731305
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Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
Originally Posted by Bruce T
I watched a bald eagle take down a full grown goose in flight while I was goose hunting.

That must have been something to see

The whole story was first the eagle tried to steal a goose I had shot.The goose landed in the water and was still flapping around when the eagle swooped down out of nowhere and landed on my goose.It was to heavy for him to fly off with so he was swimming headed to shore.I paddled my canoe up to him and the eagle let go and toke off flying.As the eagle did that I looked up and there was another goose swimming about 70 yards away.When the goose saw the eagle take of flying it panicked and started to fly about 4 feet above the lake.I got to watch the eagle zero in on the flying goose and knock him out of the air then pounce on it in the water.It was pretty amazing to watch.


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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Getting There] #6731310
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Originally Posted by Getting There
They have to eat also. I have no problem with it.

** Your Vote can get things done. **


Would you have a problem if the eagle at your dog or decided your grandchild looked like a fawn? I live in an area where the winter's are hard. Everything has to eat, and that includes the coyotes, fox and cats, who run out of food, because in the summer, all of these protected winged predators have killed off all the prey animals, as cold wet summers do not produce a great deal of prey species. So at Christmas I had a pair of coyotes slaughter four Canada geese I had as pets. It looked like Jack the Ripper..
The line about everything has to eat, includes rural people like myself who feed the rest of the non agricultural peoples. I lost over 1500 dollars worth of poultry and no one subsidized that, and the IRS still demands to get paid, like my fuel and electric company. It is when predators start eating my things and placing my life and family at financial risk, that the benevolent attitude disappeared long ago.

All predators kill something at least every other day. I am certain that dead turkey if it had a brain would take issue with a human condemning it to death, because everything has to eat.
If you read the works of John Boroughs (Father of Yosemite) and Theodore Roosevelt (Father of Yellowstone) they both as conservationists advocated the elimination of large predators in the United States, with just a few in Yellowstone. They advocated only keeping elk, deer, turkey and other animals which were of a benefit to humans. No one reads those founding conservationists works, but America was a much better place from 1890 to 1970 (Richard Nixon banned poison control of coyotes in the west.) American wildlife policy is a disaster. It raises predators, prices licenses so only the rich can afford to be outdoors, and disenfranchises Americans from their pursuits of happiness.

I in not any way mean any of this as a challenge or to pick a fight on here, but to have people think about the history and realities. If people think eagles are so wonderful killing turkeys, then next Thanksgiving don't have turkey as the eagle ate your turkey. Maybe the point would resonate better if people went hungry every few days for all the prey animals, which are millions that are slaughtered every year due to international treaties and current regulations which raise predators, as predators do not vote or call up the Fish and Game to complain.

I like to see my pheasants, turkeys, rabbits. What I don;t like to see is them bunched up on 20 below zero weather, having been moved out of their areas, because a coyote, horned owl or eagle is terrorizing them from their home. I do not raise wildlife or livestock to feed predators.

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That turkey's luck ran out today!

Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: Bruce T] #6731519
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I'm with star flakes. They're gettin too thick, predators need managed.


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Re: Eagle killed a turkey in front of my house [Re: star flakes] #6731559
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Originally Posted by star flakes
Originally Posted by Getting There
They have to eat also. I have no problem with it.

** Your Vote can get things done. **


Would you have a problem if the eagle at your dog or decided your grandchild looked like a fawn? I live in an area where the winter's are hard. Everything has to eat, and that includes the coyotes, fox and cats, who run out of food, because in the summer, all of these protected winged predators have killed off all the prey animals, as cold wet summers do not produce a great deal of prey species. So at Christmas I had a pair of coyotes slaughter four Canada geese I had as pets. It looked like Jack the Ripper..
The line about everything has to eat, includes rural people like myself who feed the rest of the non agricultural peoples. I lost over 1500 dollars worth of poultry and no one subsidized that, and the IRS still demands to get paid, like my fuel and electric company. It is when predators start eating my things and placing my life and family at financial risk, that the benevolent attitude disappeared long ago.

All predators kill something at least every other day. I am certain that dead turkey if it had a brain would take issue with a human condemning it to death, because everything has to eat.
If you read the works of John Boroughs (Father of Yosemite) and Theodore Roosevelt (Father of Yellowstone) they both as conservationists advocated the elimination of large predators in the United States, with just a few in Yellowstone. They advocated only keeping elk, deer, turkey and other animals which were of a benefit to humans. No one reads those founding conservationists works, but America was a much better place from 1890 to 1970 (Richard Nixon banned poison control of coyotes in the west.) American wildlife policy is a disaster. It raises predators, prices licenses so only the rich can afford to be outdoors, and disenfranchises Americans from their pursuits of happiness.

I in not any way mean any of this as a challenge or to pick a fight on here, but to have people think about the history and realities. If people think eagles are so wonderful killing turkeys, then next Thanksgiving don't have turkey as the eagle ate your turkey. Maybe the point would resonate better if people went hungry every few days for all the prey animals, which are millions that are slaughtered every year due to international treaties and current regulations which raise predators, as predators do not vote or call up the Fish and Game to complain.

I like to see my pheasants, turkeys, rabbits. What I don;t like to see is them bunched up on 20 below zero weather, having been moved out of their areas, because a coyote, horned owl or eagle is terrorizing them from their home. I do not raise wildlife or livestock to feed predators.


I disagree while I believe all animals including predators need to be controlled I could do with a lot fewer turkeys and rabbits around

You will talk about how predators have caused problems well here it has been the prey ie deer, Turkeys, rabbits ect that have been the problem

There really needs to be a balance, kill off all the predators and the pray becomes overpopulated, don’t control the the predators and the prey vanishes



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