Eagle Rendering

[Wolfwoman]

[grygon]

Very nice photoshop on the first one.  The other two- you took these photos?  Nice details.

[Wolfwoman]

Yup, we took those and the first one is a photoshop of one of ours   I like messin with em.

[grygon]

Yup, we took those and the first one is a photoshop of one of ours   I like messin with em.

Photoshop is fun. 

You're so lucky to live with those birds around you.  Most we get here is the neighborhood redtail hawk couple and some tiny... birds of prey things that make an annoying "ee ee ee eee!" noise. 

[Wolfwoman]

If you ask the people that live where there are lots of them, they are just as annoying as your hawks   They are like wolves, opportunistic feeders and will kill or scavenge as opportunity presents itself. I am thinking that I took those particular pics at the zoo! lol

[grygon]

If you ask the people that live where there are lots of them, they are just as annoying as your hawks   They are like wolves, opportunistic feeders and will kill or scavenge as opportunity presents itself. I am thinking that I took those particular pics at the zoo! lol

LMAO.  True, I guess.  But I like our hawks.  We so rarely actually see them and they seem to have a seasonal coming and going.  Which is weird, cause we don't get too hot here or too cold.  But I guess the food sources move on.  But I'll always keep cats and dogs around.  One time, first time ever, I found the hawk eyeing my chickens and I freaked out... then saw WHY it wouldn't make a move to kill- our cat was right under the fence looking up at it.  Good kitty kitty. 

[Wolfwoman]

We get them here occasionally, but down in Homer is where they come in hoards I don't mind birds around at all. I don't have any small critters for em to get.

[* Terri *]

Don't believe that a red-tail won't go after dogs and cats.  We have several barn cats and they've all learned to stay away from the hawks. If the cat comes near the hawk, the bird will go after the cat and I've never seen a cat stick around for the fight.   I've  also known several people to have small dogs picked up and carried off by red-tails.  Most hawks are opportunistic feeders and won't pass up an easy meal.

[grygon]

Don't believe that a red-tail won't go after dogs and cats.  We have several barn cats and they've all learned to stay away from the hawks. If the cat comes near the hawk, the bird will go after the cat and I've never seen a cat stick around for the fight.   I've  also known several people to have small dogs picked up and carried off by red-tails.  Most hawks are opportunistic feeders and won't pass up an easy meal.

Guess we've been lucky, then... ours are usually pretty shy- I've only seen them up close a handful of times in all the years they've nested nearby.  Our cat chases it off easily- it's the smaller hawks (falcons?) that go "eee eee ee" that love to chase our cat and I've even seen BOTH of the pair chasing him across the yard at times.  But the hawk flies off first sign of him.

[Sea Wolf]

I've hunted with reds and they have a tough time with anything bigger than a large rabbit so they must have been either very tiny dogs or a very young and inexperienced hawk that hadn't learned it's limits yet.

   Wuff .. when I came across eagle rendering in a search for something else .. I thought you were posting about rendering eagle oil for some healing or mystical properties. 

[Wolfwoman]

Heehee - nope I'd go to jail!! lol