AEP Photos

[Curmudgeon]

More photos including some aggressive coyotes, a rabbit right out of Monty Python, golden and bald eagles, ravens, red-tailed hawks and rough-legged hawks. I just realized, if you click on the photos, it gives you a larger version. Maybe I was the only one who didn't know that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 22, 2015 by Curmudgeon

[Curmudgeon]

More AEP photos from the past week. Click on them to see them larger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Curmudgeon]

At these baited sites, there is often a truce declared between animals that would ordinarily be this close. A Golden Eagle would eat a fox in a hurry if it was hungry. This photo was overexposed by the high sun last week. I darkened it as best I could.

 

[The_Field_Ager]

Great shots!

[Curmudgeon]

Golden Eagle clash yesterday in Delaware County.

 

[Paula]

WOW

[greg54]

Fantastic pics!!

[Curmudgeon]

Some recent photos from sites that are still operating. The first is a Cooper's Hawk. Accipiter hawks very seldom scavenge. This is the only cooper's ever photographed doing so in NYS as part of this project. There is only one photo taken just before dark. It may have been a very hungry migrant stopping late in the day.

 

 

This is a migrating Golden Eagle that stopped for a meal.

 

 

This is a Common Raven yanking on a Bald Eagle's tail. This is very common. They will do it to get the eagles to move so the raven can get at food. I have many videos of this behavior. It seems to me that they often do it for fun. They also do it to wolves but are very reluctant to do it to Golden Eagles. You do not want to provoke a Golden Eagle.

 

 

This is a nice looking cat.

 

 

I just thought this was cute.

 

[Curmudgeon]

To see video of a raven yanking an eagle's tail, go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGcjAKZaOiGDOlfkJDQbqEg and sort through the full playlist.

Edited April 1, 2015 by Curmudgeon

[Curmudgeon]

This year-old Golden Eagle dropped in for a feed this week. Almost all the goldens we see now are migrants. The adults go north first to get on their territories. The juveniles go later, usually in April. What is interesting here is that you can see the tail feathers of its first molt coming in. Each year, the white flight feathers of the wing and tail are gradually replaced with feathers with more dark and less white. When they are sexually mature, they are all dark.

 

 

 

[Lawdwaz]

This is about the coolest hunk of pictures I've ever see , no kidding! Thanks.

Edited April 3, 2015 by Lawdwaz

[Curmudgeon]

This is about the coolest hunk of pictures I've ever see , no kidding! Thanks.

 

Thank you. I have hundreds of thousands of photos. It's good for people to see some of them. Here's some from a couple of years ago.

 

Bald Eagle clash

 

 

Barred Owl collage

 

 

Cautious yote and Golden Eagle

 

 

Coyote chasing ravens

 

 

Blond coyote

 

 

[NFA-ADK]

Very cool!

[Red]

Sweet pics

[Curmudgeon]

A couple of sites still have cameras running. This is a nice photo of a relaxed bobcat (yawn) and a coyote.

 

 

This is interesting. Watching the sequence, the second skunk went completely inside the abdominal cavity.

 

 

Edited April 15, 2015 by Curmudgeon

[Paula]

Eww