Had a visitor today

[Oakview2]

See lots of them, but none quite as big as him, and had absolutely no fear. We got within six feet of him. We were afraid he might be hurt, so at dusk we shooed him away...

 

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[kazcoro]

What awesome creatures. My first favorite is the Mountain Lion. These birds are close second.

 

[Aurabbit79er]

That is so awesome, the majesty of the mighty bird. Obviously a very successful hunter by its size.
I got lucky one day when I was working out at Point Mugu Naval Base. Basically they built a naval base on top of a wetland preserve. Lots and lots of wildlife out there, all protected. Thousands of birds and seals, and also hundreds of rabbits. I was driving on a road near the coast. It looked like a 2 foot statue of a falcon, but it was alive and standing on a fresh kill rabbit (it made him look taller). His look was kind of like, this one is mine go find your own rabbit. That bird was very well fed.

 

[Goldwasher]

Ive seen a Grey Owl on a Snowshoe Hair once it was in Alaska. we didn't know what it was at first because it was sooo big.it was back in some spruce trees that were off a path in our housing area.Thats how we saw it we walked the path daily and and one day there was this out of place thing that turned out to be a giant owl eating a rabbit one of the luckiest moments of my life.

 

[Goldwasher]

Alsooooo. I have some really cool pictures with like 10 Bald Eagles in one frame from the spit in Homer ( I would have to fire up the scanner to post those pics but, they do exist). one time driving past an alfalfa field we stopped and counted like 28 Red Tail Hawks sitting all as individuals throughout the field all weird and still. We thought maybe mating wierdness but, they were all seperated so maybe pre-migration