On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:47:01 -0400, wrote:

Eagles used to be fairly rare but I imagine you could see one just
about anywhere these days if you looked.

Just the other day - I was in my garage and bang, boom, crash - a dead
branch fell out of the big ash tree in front of my house - three big
female eagles fighting over a dead squirrel in the road.

Got some picture, but I couldn't get close enough to get a real good
shot - they kept moving around.

Last winter, there were two males at Roseland Park Lake for a couple
of weeks. The ice fishermen would leave dead horn pout out on the ice
for them. Finally had to get DEP involved to get them to stop feeing
the eagles.

I have them in my woods every Spring for a few weeks and there are a
lot of them along the Connecticut River.

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On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:03:04 -0500, Richard Casady
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You could have saved $10,000. This guy lives in Estero ;-)

http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/eagle%...20feb%2008.jpg

There used to be a webcam with of an eagles nest.

Eagles used to be fairly rare but I imagine you could see one just
about anywhere these days if you looked. We usually have quite a few
around here at certain times of the year. I saw 4 one morning when I
was doing my water samples right at sun rise flying over the scrub. My
wife used to have a pair that picked through her construction
dumpsters almost every day looking for leftover lunch food right next
to US41.
My buddy says they are seen around DC from time to time and we saw one
in New Hampshire when we were up there. They are all over out west.
They are still a striking bird when one flies over.

Homer Alaska is supposed to be the eagle capital of the world. We were
there in June and we only saw one scrawny eagle that looked too weak
to fly anywhere else. He was hanging around the "eagle lady's" house
there.

Well, Nova Scotia may have helped a bit with re-introducing the eagle.
http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/wildlife/CONSERVA/18-04-5.htm

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On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:38:58 -0400, "Eisboch"
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Looks great! Especially in HD, full screen.

Thanks. I ended up getting a Canon HF100 just before the trip and am
very pleased with the video/optical quality. Now I need to learn
something about editing. :-)

Any recommendations?



The camera I bought (a Samsung something or other) came with an editing
program called Cyberlink DVD Suite. It was horrible. Couldn't figure out
how to work it and their on-line tech service knew less than I did.

I ended up buying Roxio Creator 2009 at the recommendation of someone who
knew more about this stuff than I. I don't know how it compares to other
packages, but at least I understand it and can use it. It has a pretty neat
converter utility also.

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/cr.../overview.html

Eisboch

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:49:25 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:31:21 -0400, Wayne.B
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Needs editing, good looking eagle however. Taken from jet boat, lots
of jumping around due to boat motion. Press HD button if you have a
fast connection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnhiPvwI4qk


You could have saved $10,000. This guy lives in Estero ;-)

http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/eagle%...20feb%2008.jpg

True but Estero seems to be short on snow covered mountain peaks and
moose meadows for background scenery. And although the Estero River
has some tricky navigational challenges, it ain't nuttin compared to
the Chilkat where the channels literally change overnight, current
runs at over 6 knots and deep water is 24 inches.

On Jun 3, 5:36*pm, "Don White" wrote:
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On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:03:04 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

You could have saved $10,000. This guy lives in Estero *;-)

http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/eagle%...20feb%2008.jpg

There used to be a webcam with of an eagles nest.

Eagles used to be fairly rare but I imagine you could see one just
about anywhere these days if you looked. We usually have quite a few
around here at certain times of the year. I saw 4 one morning when I
was doing my water samples right at sun rise flying over the scrub. My
wife used to have a pair that picked through her construction
dumpsters almost every day looking for leftover lunch food right next
to US41.
My buddy says they are seen around DC from time to time and we saw one
in New Hampshire when we were up there. They are all over out west.
They are still a striking bird when one flies over.

Homer Alaska is supposed to be the eagle capital of the world. We were
there in June and we only saw one scrawny eagle that looked too weak
to fly anywhere else. He was hanging around the "eagle lady's" house
there.

Well, Nova Scotia may have helped a bit with re-introducing the eagle.http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/wildlife/C...A/18-04-5.htm- Hide quoted text -

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Okay, dummy, how did that help the population of eagles in Homer, AK?

On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:07:08 -0400, wrote:

The biggest difference between the Estero River and the Chikat is
ROCKS. We have some oysters but those Alaskan rivers are solid rock
bottoms. The Inuit fisherman who ran the B&B in Cooper Landing had a
Merc outboard with a jet drive on the toughest looking aluminum boat I
have ever seen. He said that was the only thing that would hold up in
those rivers.

We were on the boat in the background with twin jet drive Yamahas.
The hull is very much like an overgrown Carolina Skiff made with
aluminum.

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/3689/dsc0029ulr.jpg