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Originally Posted by rick35
"...Could this be the same one or are there reports of more in the area...?"
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Osprey has been fishing near shore from the now-empty Camp Ossipee, and on Thursday, a likely
Golden Eagle—noisily announced by crows—headed for The Castle in the Clouds.
These last two weeks, there were so many daily Bald Eagle sightings above my boat that I didn't bother to post about them.
But sleeping in this Sunday morning, my alarm clock at 8:45 was a large feathered object in a shoreline tree screaming, "Kwee-'ERK? Kwee-'ERK? Kwee-'ERK? Kwee-'ERK? Kwee-'ERK?" (The apostrophe means there's a little "hiccup" in that upwardly-inflected call).
After about 15 minutes of this, I ventured outside just as an
immense mature Bald Eagle took flight. I'd guess because of her huge size, she was entitled to "crow" about something!
The crows are normally energetic about announcing the unwanted presence of Bald Eagles—so maybe the few crows heard at a distance were mobbing her companion, but smaller, Bald Eagle.
(Maybe).
