Posted by Dan Roberts on March 29, 2013 at 12:09 AM
Ouch.
Posted by Loren Fisher on March 29, 2013 at 11:10 AM
That was one stupid hawk. It is amazing how I travel all over to photograph eagles and have yet to get anything good from this pair two miles from my house. Access to the nest site is protected, as it should be, so getting any worthwhile shots of them is just dumb luck. But the grounds of the Duke estate are spectacular, well worth shooting if you are in Central New Jersey.
Posted by Nick Baldwin on March 30, 2013 at 8:19 PM
That is cool.
Interestingly enough the prime predator, in Florida at least, of the Bald Eagle is the Great Horned Owl.
Often times the owl uses stealth in attacking the nest when temp. unguarded or parents distracted.
We have a pair of Bald Eagles and a pair of GH Owls doing a "time share" arrangement.
One year the GHO is in a nest then next year the BE returned to that nest and the GHO-after a two year hiatus-came returned to a neighboring eagles nest!
Posted by Robert Bunch on March 31, 2013 at 9:55 AM
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Interestingly enough the prime predator, in Florida at least, of the Bald Eagle is the Great Horned Owl.
Often times the owl uses stealth in attacking the nest when temp. unguarded or parents distracted.
We have a pair of Bald Eagles and a pair of GH Owls doing a "time share" arrangement.
One year the GHO is in a nest then next year the BE returned to that nest and the GHO-after a two year hiatus-came returned to a neighboring eagles nest!
Sandy