Immature Bald Eagle Harassed By Crows!

[Lawdwaz]

I found another reason to NOT regret my former crow hunting days!!

 

Yesterday while I was having coffee with my friend, I noticed a couple crows harassing what at first glance a looked like a turkey buzzard out over his pasture.  Quickly the big bird dove for the ground and I noticed that it most certainly wasn't a turkey buzzard but a immature bald eagle! 

 

It landed and the crows continued to dive bomb it for another 30 seconds or so while my buddy and I scrambled for optics.  We figured we only had a few seconds before he/she took off so just got the binos.  After a couple minutes I set up the always handy spotting scope and started snapping pics with my Iphone up to the eye piece. 

 

He hung around for probably 15 minutes, his head swiveling around looking up, terrified of the crows still lurking up in the pine trees.  Finally I had to leave so then he flew away. 

 

Hopefully someday soon when he grows up I'll see him cruising the air currents with a crow in each talon. 

 

 

 

[Red]

Nice pics I've taken pics with b the phone held to the binos.

Its funny that you just posted this i was working in a park last thursday in victor and seen the same thing happen 3 crows kept diving at a young bald eagle.

[Marion]

When do they turn bald? After their first kids?

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[Lawdwaz]

When do they turn bald? After their first kids?

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Sometimes that'll do it.

[DirtTime]

Very surprised Curmudgeon isn't chiming in on this one. Seems like this would be right up his alley.

[132 eight pointer]

Bowhunting recently I watched a Bluejay get in a crows face until a flock of crows showed up and the 2 Bluejays flew away.

[Curmudgeon]

Crows like to bomb anything big. Ravens often ignore bald eagles because they don't consider them dangerous. They do not like golden eagles because golden eagles eat them.

 

This is a raven pulling a bald's tail:

 

 

This is what happens to a raven if it hangs around goldens:

 

[turkeyfeathers]

There would be less crows if I could ever hit them dang things. Crow decoys out with owl decoy , Johnny Stewart electtric caller , good positioning. Crows fly in , I shoot , they bob n weave , I miss , they fly off. I suck at wing shooting

[kpkot]

Very cool lawdwaz. I always thought of using optics as a zoom but never tried. The quality isn't really that bad.

[Lawdwaz]

There would be less crows if I could ever hit them dang things. Crow decoys out with owl decoy , Johnny Stewart electtric caller , good positioning. Crows fly in , I shoot , they bob n weave , I miss , they fly off. I suck at wing shooting

 

What choke are you using?  I like an Improved Cylinder for most bird shooting........

[kpkot]

Where were you when you saw the eagle? Starting to see more and more in wny area.

[Lawdwaz]

Where were you when you saw the eagle? Starting to see more and more in wny area.

 

Ontario County, NY

[monkeyman2269]

Saw one this morning

[Red]

My eagle and crow experience last week was also in.Ontario county I went back Monday to throw the flag pole in and the eagle want around that day.

[Lawdwaz]

My eagle and crow experience last week was also in.Ontario county I went back Monday to throw the flag pole in and the eagle want around that day.

 

Is that when you were in Victor?