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A Calving Season Visitor

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Jerry/MT

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I just looked out the window a few minutes ago and saw we had a visitor. The eagles seem to come around during calving season and clean up the afterbirth.
 
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Getting to be more and more bald eagles around here- Just missed hitting one with the car as it came out of the river with a fish in its talons, heading for its nest about half a mile away.
 
I used to live in Graham, WA and right around Christmmas there was a run of salmon that came up the Puyallup River. My wife and I would walk on the levee near Orting and there were 50-80 bald eagles perched in trees along the river in a 1-1/2 mile stretch. Occasionally you"d see them feeding on a salmon carcass on the rocks.
 
I just don"t see a lot of coyotes around here during calving season. We have such a vole problem right now the buggers pert near knock on our door and ask for a hand out. They build up and then suddenly just die off. In the mean time, the hawks and coyotes must be eating pretty well especially with no deep snow to couver the little ba**ards up.
 
Several years ago we watched a Golden Eagle pick up a new born calf. Got off the ground just high enought to drop and kill the calf. Hated to lose the calf, but sure wished I had pictures of that.
 
Benjamin Franklin didn't want the Bald Eagle as America's symbol. Ben didn't care for the eagle's tendency to act like a vulture instead of a hunter.
 
When my brother had his cattle there were some vietnamese people who would come looking for the afterbirth. They would also go for the downers. It was good for my brother it gave him a place to get rid of them. He didn't get much, but it was better than feeding the coyotes. Stan
 
We bought half of an old farmer's place- he said his two old dogs were used to coming on the place and hanging around with the cattle- said they'd never given a problem with the cattle, but if they did, "Just shoot 'em".

Dogs adopted our herd, and hung around all the time- cows accepted them, and dogs ran off the coyotes. Old guy noticed they were at our place most of the time and asked if he needed to tie them up- I told him to just leave them be- they're doing FINE-
 
Sold my cows about a year ago so don't have any more calving problems. The predator that is causing trouble in Ky is the black headed buzzard. They have been known to peck out the calves eyes before it completely exits the cow. They are in such numbers that some birds will get the cow to chase them while the others attack the calf. They are a protected species so practice of the three S es is needed. Shoot, shovel and shut up. Joe
 
It's not unusual to see them around here. Two of them were working on a road killed deer for a couple weeks earlier this month. They got used to cars passing by, you could drive right up to them.
 
There was a picture in the Missoulian this spring of a deer fawn in the electric wires. It had been picked up by an eagle and apparently dropped and was hanging in the wires. Mother Nature isn"t always like a Walt Disney movie!
 
Ben wanted the turkey named the national bird. Would be very appropriate at this point based on the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania.
 
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