Predator hunting by air...
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I've been thinking about setting up my trail cam at a place where the state dumps all the road killed winter deer. There are tons of bald eagles, a few coyotes and what ever else there. My god that's an awsome pic.. tootalloutdoors
That's an amazing photo. Raptors of all types are impressive birds. Here on the Central Coast of California we have a lot of Red Tail Hawks, Kestrels and Kites with an occasional Golden Eagle. I can sit for hours and watch them hunt, soar or mate,in the air).
A couple of years ago I was in my back yard and over the fence into my neighbor's field I saw a Red Tail Hawk struggling to keep in flight with a very large ground squirrel it had just killed. It only made it about 100yds and had to set down again. He wasn't giving up, even when three very large Turkey Vultures landed next to him and attempted to take it away form him. That scene went on for about 10 minutes then I saw the vultures and the hawk immediately take flight, I wondered why. I looked a little further up the field and there was a Coyote making a bee-line for the dead squirrel. The hawk was clearly too small to challenge the Coyote. The Coyote arrived at the dead squirrel, chewed on him for a little bit and then the whole thing went down the throat with the squirrel's tail the last to go down. What a scene.
M700, thanks for sharing the photo with us.
shcal
A couple of years ago I was in my back yard and over the fence into my neighbor's field I saw a Red Tail Hawk struggling to keep in flight with a very large ground squirrel it had just killed. It only made it about 100yds and had to set down again. He wasn't giving up, even when three very large Turkey Vultures landed next to him and attempted to take it away form him. That scene went on for about 10 minutes then I saw the vultures and the hawk immediately take flight, I wondered why. I looked a little further up the field and there was a Coyote making a bee-line for the dead squirrel. The hawk was clearly too small to challenge the Coyote. The Coyote arrived at the dead squirrel, chewed on him for a little bit and then the whole thing went down the throat with the squirrel's tail the last to go down. What a scene.
M700, thanks for sharing the photo with us.
shcal
I thought iot was shooting varmints from the air too.
Over here we have guys that hunt pigs into chillers for the game meat market from helicopters.
Govt used to cull asiatic water buffalo from helicopters and some guys in central AUS used to hunt camels from hot air balloons.
Awsome pic
later
P
Over here we have guys that hunt pigs into chillers for the game meat market from helicopters.
Govt used to cull asiatic water buffalo from helicopters and some guys in central AUS used to hunt camels from hot air balloons.
Awsome pic
later
P
To see what actually happened look at:
http://www.tarsiger.com/index.php?pic_id=komi1142612071&lang=fin
It's covered by snopes.com as Eagle vs Fox.
Kevin
http://www.tarsiger.com/index.php?pic_id=komi1142612071&lang=fin
It's covered by snopes.com as Eagle vs Fox.
Kevin
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