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More common than we realized.
Maybe the Bald Eagle holding a claw full of arrows isn’t just an artist impression.
^ Those arrows were fletched with eagle feathers. The eagle was just taking back what’s his.
A couple summers ago we had a Golden Eagle hanging around our camp. I got some good pix of it doing the breast stroke across the river. It was much more verbal than the Bald Eagles that live there. I would mock it and we’d have conversations. It attacked the solar yard lites chewed up the chair pads and pooped all over. It must have been lonesome. It would sit in front of the neighbors patio doors I’m sure wondering why the one he saw didn’t respond to it.
Must be a tough neighborhood – even the birds are carrying shivs…
There are Bald, Golden and Osprey who nest in the cottonwoods and willows that choke the tailwaters below the impoundment dam at Chatfield and in the estuaries where the Platte and Plum Creek meet above the reservoir. Raptors, and most birds for that matter, have a very refined visual sense of color and shape. They have to in order to survive, whether predator or prey. Crows and Ravens tend to collect bright, shiny objects….Bird bling.
“Shiny, Cap’n!!!” – Kaylee, ship’s mechanic on the transport Serenity. from “Firefly “
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Actually, novelty aside,
I was primarily awed by the larger photo at the link.
Dayum! That pic’s a keeper!
Even the eagles are arming themselves?
They know something we don’t?
Or perhaps it is something we already know and they are just lending their support ;)
Spectacular photography! Thanks for posting.
Checked the link to DailyUK yesterday. Hope some of you noticed besides this “warbird” the top rated story at the bottom of their page- the RAF P-40 Kittyhawk as the Brits called them found now 70 years later in the Egyptian desert.
Only curious now…not sure if it was a Lend-Lease plane, what happens to it if salvaged. I thought they had to be returned or paid for after the war.
accipiter NW@11, Google or dogpile.com [P-40 found in desert]
There’s a whole buncha sites with lots pics & vids.
The brits have announced that they want to move it to one
of their museums. I hope they find the pilots remains so they
can give him a proper burial with honors. If they do, then I
hope a coupla his old squadron mates can be there. For me
a very sad & very real reminder of some of our history!
Thanks for the update Lance. The pilot is thought to have gotten disoriented and lost over the endless desert, running out of fuel. I suppose his remains are buried under the shifting sands. Not the first plane of that era I’ve read about being discovered in the desert. B-24 “Lady Be Good” was discovered in 1959 in the Libyan desert.
Off Croatia last year, B-24 “TulsAmerican” was found 175 feet down in the Adriatic Sea. More are sure to be discovered in the Pyrenees and elsewhere. Hope any of the fallen get the proper burial with honors.