Do eagles eat at night? Do they hunt?
I'm a little worried about my kitty cat.
Okay, we have a pair of Eagles that own this territory surrounding my house.... mostly forest area, with one big, as in really big, river and two Brooks which look like rivers to me, but what the heck do I know.... that cross this 5 mile square area....
A few years back I got the best ever pictures of them!
We've seen them just two times since then close up, and two times at a distance, on the other side of the meadow....and once, 1 of them in the meadow, he had a fish in his talons that he dropped and then swooped down and was eating it.... tearing it apart with his or her? beak.
Well, Matt's still unemployed, since April1st, so he and I have been doing projects at our house..... we've been lucky and got a warm front for the past 3 days after already having a few inches of snow on election day! So, cuz it's warm he decided to rip out any wood rot on the remaining window sills he didn't get to in the summer, fill it with plastic wood, shave, sand, then paint them before the next snow...and while we are in the 60s...
So, he's on the ladder working on a front window, right across from the meadow before the trees and brook, and he hears a really loud sound, he described it to me as if it were a bull, getting ready to charge making this HUFF HUFF HUFF HUFF HUFF HUFF sound, getting louder and louder.... He looks up just as this eagle flew over his head and our house, flying towards the big big big river that's a couple of miles away... He says an 8ft wing span, huge!
So, I get worried and ask him, do you think the eagle was big enough to grab and pick up our beloved kitty cat, and he says "Heck YES! That thing could pick up ME!!!"....mind you, Matt is 6'3 and 210lbs!
My cat is outside ON the deck....the patio table and chairs have not been put away for the winter yet, so there are some obstacles that she can sort of get under or stand by, but eagles have good eyes, so likely could sweep down and grab her, if they even eat cats? I know my neighbor down the way, lost a cat to an owl that swooped down and hauled it away.....
So my question is once again, Do Eagles eat or hunt at night and have you heard of them eating cats?
I'm a little worried about my kitty cat.
Okay, we have a pair of Eagles that own this territory surrounding my house.... mostly forest area, with one big, as in really big, river and two Brooks which look like rivers to me, but what the heck do I know.... that cross this 5 mile square area....
A few years back I got the best ever pictures of them!
TWO BALD EAGLES in my yard a few seconds ago
Two Bald Eagles on two trees in my yard...I'm shaking...had to run in and get the camera, the card wasn't in it and I had no room for pics on the camera itself, and then the batteries went dead and the hubby ran in and got me 4 new batteries.... All the while I am thinking that the American...
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We've seen them just two times since then close up, and two times at a distance, on the other side of the meadow....and once, 1 of them in the meadow, he had a fish in his talons that he dropped and then swooped down and was eating it.... tearing it apart with his or her? beak.
Well, Matt's still unemployed, since April1st, so he and I have been doing projects at our house..... we've been lucky and got a warm front for the past 3 days after already having a few inches of snow on election day! So, cuz it's warm he decided to rip out any wood rot on the remaining window sills he didn't get to in the summer, fill it with plastic wood, shave, sand, then paint them before the next snow...and while we are in the 60s...
So, he's on the ladder working on a front window, right across from the meadow before the trees and brook, and he hears a really loud sound, he described it to me as if it were a bull, getting ready to charge making this HUFF HUFF HUFF HUFF HUFF HUFF sound, getting louder and louder.... He looks up just as this eagle flew over his head and our house, flying towards the big big big river that's a couple of miles away... He says an 8ft wing span, huge!
So, I get worried and ask him, do you think the eagle was big enough to grab and pick up our beloved kitty cat, and he says "Heck YES! That thing could pick up ME!!!"....mind you, Matt is 6'3 and 210lbs!
My cat is outside ON the deck....the patio table and chairs have not been put away for the winter yet, so there are some obstacles that she can sort of get under or stand by, but eagles have good eyes, so likely could sweep down and grab her, if they even eat cats? I know my neighbor down the way, lost a cat to an owl that swooped down and hauled it away.....
So my question is once again, Do Eagles eat or hunt at night and have you heard of them eating cats?