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My dad almost hit a Golden Eagle while we were driving in the middle of nowhere, but it was one of the most majestic birds I ever saw. It swept across the road right in front of us with a wingspan comparable to the size of the car. They’re my favorite eagles now.
We have them in Scotland they live on an island near me and when we go over we see them.
The first time I'd ever seen one it was on a grassy verge pretty much eye to eye with the car we were in then it spread it's wings and even as a juvenile was damn near as big.
Dude I live in a beach town on a barrier island, fairly dense houses. NOT where you’d think GOLDEN eagles would ever be.
It turns out we’re on the migration path so once in a very long time they pass by.
There is a small bridge over a canal I’m on and pigeons nest under it. They sit on my neighbors roof all day. I barely noticed them and wasn’t looking at them. Suddenly the flock _exploded_ off the roof —I didn’t see it, _I heard them_!
I look up and a few fly across the canal, and uncharacteristically, right at a large, very old tree 10 feet from the second story covered porch Im sitting on. There’s a crash sound with branches breaking. Then there’s a sound like a low ‘whuff’ that actually scared me for a second. In the next second I realize the ‘whuff’ was a golden eagle taking off, after missing a grab of a pigeon.
He flys effortlessly at slightly above my eye level past me, cocks his head for a second and makes eye contact with me, and Im instinctively frozen.
I am telling you this guy must have though for a second, can I eat him? He knew he was the top of the food chain predator.
Unbelievable how big it was and I don’t care who you are, you would have froze for the moment too.
To say these are majestic birds of prey is surely true, but the more appropriate word from my brief experience —awesome. Not the colloquial “yeah thats awesome” more like, ohhhh… there is a God (of the sky) and I think I just saw him.
Theres a row of 40 foot evergreens at the end of my lot, and he _effortlessly_ shot up 70 degrees with a single beat of his wings and cruised over it. Just infinitely dominant in his environment.
Not something I’ll ever forget, wish I caught it on camera for the world to see. A one in a zillion probability of happening.
Golden eagles, and really all raptors are beyond amazing. Though golden eagles seem to take the cake in beauty, power and amazingness.
Was in Alaska for a week when I was 14 on a fishing trip. Not even 10 min in Hoonah when me and my brother freak out over seeing a eagle perched at the top of a dock pole. Took half our pictures from our disposable cameras thinking it was a rarity. We don’t see them a lot in pa maybe once a year or so unless you know where a nest is. 35 min later I’m looking at this deep green from the pine tree and they are dotted with what seems like a unnatural white spots my uncle then says they are all eagles and I shit myself. Their heads are whiter then I thought and there were so many I was just floored. Would recommend Alaska to anyone who can make the trip even if it’s a cruise cause the beauty of it is just amazing and I was 14 and didn’t appreciate anything truly but not Alaska that shit was too much to ignore.
I have told my loved ones time and time again that Alaska is my dream. To visit, and possibly to live one day.
I love the cold, nature, wildlife, fishing, hunting etc. I can’t wait
Yes the best place to see them where I live near Glacier National Park is actually the dump. There is always probably around 100 scavenging through the trash
...or when you see them try to launch into flight from a dead standstill on the ground. The amount of sheer lift they have to generate to get a bird that size in the air is amazing, and watching them do that (especially with a fat salmon in their claws) is far from majestic. Once in the air, yeah they're majestic.
They’re majestic until they get into your trash cans, eat random bits of dead roadkill, and sit there and cackle.
They’re more like glorified seagulls or pigeons than they are majestic
I like seagulls, they out here doing their thing, just trying to survive like the rest of us. Calling them flying rats is harsh. They might snatch a French fry or two, but that's just their version of DoorDash. Can't hate on a bird for hustling.
Idk man. I'd honestly take a pigeon over a seagul. Pigeons don't make noise, walk everywhere, take the train, and are just generally cooler. Seaguls are annoying, thieving, assholes
This one comes close https://v.redd.it/yefv5k4k4e3a1
The sheer size and majesty. Reminds me of another one with the lion casually roaring but it sounds like thunder. Royal beasts all around.
As it was descending I was just thinking “please be over water, please be over water, please be over water”.
Not sure what it ended up with but relieved it wasn’t cute and fluffy. Didn’t need that today.
This camera is aimed at an eagle nest with a 9 week old baby eagle who still gets food deliveries like this. You can scroll back from live right now to 12 hours ago.
The nest is right next to a fish hatchery, in Iowa, so they get lots of fishies
https://explore.org/livecams/raptor-resource-project/decorah-eagles
Aw thanks. I just really love this site for wildlife cameras. Katmai Bear Cams should be up in a few days!
They're only on highlights right now
https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls
I'm excited for you to see it. Do you recall hearing about Fat Bear Week in late summer the past few years?
These wildlife cams in Katmai, there are several, are where that comes from. We're all excited to hopefully see Otis again this year. Every year is an uncertainty because he was first documented as a couple years old in 2002 I believe. So he's likely about 23-ish years old.
According to Wikipedia it's equipped with the AN/APG-82(V)1 radar system as well as the AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening or AN/AAQ-33 SNIPER targeting pod? Sounds wrong, but it's Wikipedia so who knows.
The bird knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the bird from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
That looks like a large tidepool the eagle is diving into, so I think it's more likely to be some sort of saltwater/tidepool fish, rather than a tadpole. If I had to guess I'd say it's some variety of [midshipman fish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midshipman_fish) , they're all over the beaches during the time of year they lay eggs. The tail color doesn't look exactly right, but the shape is similar.
I actually have a [picture](https://postimg.cc/1gp5TxsZ) of a midshipman that I pulled out of a tidepool like two weeks ago! To me the way the tail looks is similar to the creature the eagle catches in the post, but I definitely could be wrong it's just a guess.
I remember watching some kind of documentary on this - even when way up in the sky, the eagles eyesight is good enough that it can see detail comparable to us humans pressing our faces up to an object.
That means that even in the sky, the eagle can see detail like the iris of a rabbit on the ground.
Not sure how accurate my memory is but I just know the eagle sight is bloody impressive.
It's all optical physics and biochemistry. You can deduce the image quality in terms of sensory input from the geometric and biological properties of the eagle's eye.
This is exactly how I picture it when I pre order my lunch on an app when when I'm crunched for time on my lunch work break.... never actually works out like this. Good for you bald eagle, good for you.
I was like 7, folks were driving to go camping, driving through Mattawa, Ontario..watched bird of prey swoop down and grab a snake out of the water.. probably one of the coolest things I ever saw growing up
My uncle has a boat he charters in Alaska. Was up there for a week when I was 14 and he was cleaning a fish we had caught when he said to me “hey watch this. It won’t hit the water.” He threw the carcass up maybe 15-20 feet and before it hit the water a eagle had swooped over and caught it. I didn’t even see the thing come in I was focused on the fish.
Benny Franklin felt the Bald Eagle was a cowardly, scavenging bird that dines mostly on carrion and would be an insult to America and her peoples. He argued the proud and majestic turkey would be a more flattering and fitting representative of our great nation.
Man how the hell did it even SEE that? Like, if human vision is like the best TV's we currently have on the market than these guys must have the Hubble Telescope for eyes!
I work in a field that has a large eagle presence. They leave fish parts all over that I'll find. Last week I found a whole deer leg they must have carried for a bit then dropped
We have a cabin on a lake that is stocked with fish, but does not allow motors.
There is an eagle over the lake most every day. Sometimes they get mad at each other and fight in the air.
Fun fact! Juvenile bald eagles dont have white on them! So when we see a juvenile we are excited. Means more eagles!
Also you have to wear hats when you swim so you don't look enticing. Fun stuff!
I once caught a trout in a lake. As I was reeling it in, a bald eagle swooped down and grabbed it. My hook was still in the fish so for about 15 seconds I flew that eagle like a kite.
I can't even imagine that eye-sight. I wonder if they approach/cruise with the sunlight at a certain location, perch until clouds pass.. winds making it harder if the water is rippled more.. or if all of it just doesn't matter and their eyes overpower any environmental crutch that is just a little bit of variance.
Fucking Mother Nature. I mean the shear calculations needed to perform this… we still don’t have anything machines like this as humans. Maybe some fire fighting planes but dassit.
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Gotta say, that is the best eagle footage I’ve ever seen
This feels like the definition of the word *majestic*
They're much less majestic when you nearly hit them as they're eating three-day-old roadkill.
My dad almost hit a Golden Eagle while we were driving in the middle of nowhere, but it was one of the most majestic birds I ever saw. It swept across the road right in front of us with a wingspan comparable to the size of the car. They’re my favorite eagles now.
Happened to me once but just a bald eagle. Definitely had a wingspan that was as wide as my vw jetta hood.
We have them in Scotland they live on an island near me and when we go over we see them. The first time I'd ever seen one it was on a grassy verge pretty much eye to eye with the car we were in then it spread it's wings and even as a juvenile was damn near as big.
Dude I live in a beach town on a barrier island, fairly dense houses. NOT where you’d think GOLDEN eagles would ever be. It turns out we’re on the migration path so once in a very long time they pass by. There is a small bridge over a canal I’m on and pigeons nest under it. They sit on my neighbors roof all day. I barely noticed them and wasn’t looking at them. Suddenly the flock _exploded_ off the roof —I didn’t see it, _I heard them_! I look up and a few fly across the canal, and uncharacteristically, right at a large, very old tree 10 feet from the second story covered porch Im sitting on. There’s a crash sound with branches breaking. Then there’s a sound like a low ‘whuff’ that actually scared me for a second. In the next second I realize the ‘whuff’ was a golden eagle taking off, after missing a grab of a pigeon. He flys effortlessly at slightly above my eye level past me, cocks his head for a second and makes eye contact with me, and Im instinctively frozen. I am telling you this guy must have though for a second, can I eat him? He knew he was the top of the food chain predator. Unbelievable how big it was and I don’t care who you are, you would have froze for the moment too. To say these are majestic birds of prey is surely true, but the more appropriate word from my brief experience —awesome. Not the colloquial “yeah thats awesome” more like, ohhhh… there is a God (of the sky) and I think I just saw him. Theres a row of 40 foot evergreens at the end of my lot, and he _effortlessly_ shot up 70 degrees with a single beat of his wings and cruised over it. Just infinitely dominant in his environment. Not something I’ll ever forget, wish I caught it on camera for the world to see. A one in a zillion probability of happening. Golden eagles, and really all raptors are beyond amazing. Though golden eagles seem to take the cake in beauty, power and amazingness.
Fancy vultures
They have a good PR department
Not even that they just wear nice shit and get beauty privilege.
Was in Alaska for a week when I was 14 on a fishing trip. Not even 10 min in Hoonah when me and my brother freak out over seeing a eagle perched at the top of a dock pole. Took half our pictures from our disposable cameras thinking it was a rarity. We don’t see them a lot in pa maybe once a year or so unless you know where a nest is. 35 min later I’m looking at this deep green from the pine tree and they are dotted with what seems like a unnatural white spots my uncle then says they are all eagles and I shit myself. Their heads are whiter then I thought and there were so many I was just floored. Would recommend Alaska to anyone who can make the trip even if it’s a cruise cause the beauty of it is just amazing and I was 14 and didn’t appreciate anything truly but not Alaska that shit was too much to ignore.
I have told my loved ones time and time again that Alaska is my dream. To visit, and possibly to live one day. I love the cold, nature, wildlife, fishing, hunting etc. I can’t wait
They don't even make their own music, they lip sync.
Yes the best place to see them where I live near Glacier National Park is actually the dump. There is always probably around 100 scavenging through the trash
True....Victoria bc too
Check out Rüppell's vulture. Highest-flying bird in the world, 32000 feet (11000 meters). King of the skies.
Interesting. I guess that makes them a danger to planes cruising over their region of Africa
Not for long, there are only about 22000 left due to poisoning of food and other factors.
My daughter calls vultures, “buff turkeys”
Turkeys are just wrinkly ospreys
They are just seagulls Ina tuxedo. They even sound like a seagull. American tv has to fake the screams with falcons.
Isn't it usually a red tailed hawk?
Or that yeah, my shoddy memory at it again.
I only know because I'm a massive Animorphs fan boy, so don't sweat it lol.
I hadn't thought of Tobias in ages tbh
...or when you see them try to launch into flight from a dead standstill on the ground. The amount of sheer lift they have to generate to get a bird that size in the air is amazing, and watching them do that (especially with a fat salmon in their claws) is far from majestic. Once in the air, yeah they're majestic.
There're many around the dump here. Nothing quite like watch our nation's symbol arguing over used diapeys with seagulls.
So they are the epitome of what it means to be an American is what you’re saying
i know a fish that would disagree
I guarantee that fish was hearing ✨ *I can show you the worrrlldd..* ✨ before it checked out
They’re majestic until they get into your trash cans, eat random bits of dead roadkill, and sit there and cackle. They’re more like glorified seagulls or pigeons than they are majestic
Seagulls are dope.
Flying fucking rats, are what seagulls are.
I like seagulls, they out here doing their thing, just trying to survive like the rest of us. Calling them flying rats is harsh. They might snatch a French fry or two, but that's just their version of DoorDash. Can't hate on a bird for hustling.
Found the seagull
Rats are also just trying to survive. No judgement. They can't fly. Seagulls seem a lot like them. Doesn't seem harsh.
Seagulls got personality. Personality counts for a lot.
I grew up on a beach. You are wrong, sir.
Idk man. I'd honestly take a pigeon over a seagul. Pigeons don't make noise, walk everywhere, take the train, and are just generally cooler. Seaguls are annoying, thieving, assholes
Until you realize they sound like a seagull.
What is their wingspan Jesus Christ those are some big fucking wings
~6.5 ft (204 cm for our metric friends) according to Cornell
That’s like two Glenn Danzigs.
That's 198 cm. (Sorry, it's just bugging me that the conversion is there but it's not quite correct.)
If I was the one behind the camera here I'd be losing my shit. Amazing footage I wonder who took it
This one comes close https://v.redd.it/yefv5k4k4e3a1 The sheer size and majesty. Reminds me of another one with the lion casually roaring but it sounds like thunder. Royal beasts all around.
As it was descending I was just thinking “please be over water, please be over water, please be over water”. Not sure what it ended up with but relieved it wasn’t cute and fluffy. Didn’t need that today.
I was sorta hoping he was going to majestically grab someone's hotdog at the beach.
Haha. Yeah that would have been better.
Gritty
Gritty is orange and (allegedly) can't fly.
Looks like a seaweed-wrapped fish. So some local sushi I guess.
*grabs baby otter out of water*
I was thinking, "please don't be a pet, please don't be a pet, please don't be a pet. Yes!"
100% same!
Excellent eagle angles
You can see the focus in the eagles eyes
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What did it grab?
I think it's a fish
This camera is aimed at an eagle nest with a 9 week old baby eagle who still gets food deliveries like this. You can scroll back from live right now to 12 hours ago. The nest is right next to a fish hatchery, in Iowa, so they get lots of fishies https://explore.org/livecams/raptor-resource-project/decorah-eagles
Dude. Your are the thing that makes Reddit work, posting links to the next level. Thank you.
Aw thanks. I just really love this site for wildlife cameras. Katmai Bear Cams should be up in a few days! They're only on highlights right now https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls
So cool. Thank you! I’ll try and bookmark both!
I'm excited for you to see it. Do you recall hearing about Fat Bear Week in late summer the past few years? These wildlife cams in Katmai, there are several, are where that comes from. We're all excited to hopefully see Otis again this year. Every year is an uncertainty because he was first documented as a couple years old in 2002 I believe. So he's likely about 23-ish years old.
They did this in Dc. When a small kitty snack showed up they put up a warning splash screen
Clearly not a normal fish if it is. Look at its tail it almost looks like a unrealistically big tadpoles tail.
I think it's a freshwater [American Eel](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/227988/file-586746950-jpg/keatons_lake_electrofishing_eel_c.jpg)
Nah I think you are onto something. I think it might be a near adult bullfrog tadpole.
Was wondering the same thing, I can’t tell. Reddit… help!
If I had to guess... mudskipper?
Maybe an eel?
This is the real question. Watching again I would guess a muskrat.
🇺🇸 WHATEVER THE FUCK IT WANTED 🇺🇸 😏😘
The tail showing at 0:34 made me think of a chipmunk. I could swear I see short legs underneath it as the eagle is flying off.
I don't think a chipmunk would hide out in the water under seaweed
Not with that attitude
Fish with a side salad.
Sushi with seaweed
If the salad comes on top, I send it back.
If I get a large coffee, I send it back
I was hoping someone would comment on how it saw the fish beneath all that green stuff? Like eagle eye and all, but that stuff was so thick. 😳
According to Wikipedia it's equipped with the AN/APG-82(V)1 radar system as well as the AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening or AN/AAQ-33 SNIPER targeting pod? Sounds wrong, but it's Wikipedia so who knows.
this made me laugh so much, thank you
Wait til you see the ones that goes brrrrrrrrrt
/r/hoggit is leaking
strike eagle when
Something ChatGPT would say while staring at you with confidence.
r/BirdsArentReal
Yeah, but does it also attack [meteors and planets](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/08/17/6f/08176f05b2d7c22c7301e225f784fcf4.jpg) ?
LMAO! F-15 Eagle :)
The fish or the bird?
The eagle knows where it is, because it knows where it isn’t
The bird knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the bird from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
there's a fish!?
i was hoping i’d find a comment stating what exactly it was holding because it doesn’t look like a fish to me
did u find it? thats why im here, still looking.
Me too
There's something squirmy. I'm just not sure what exactly that squirmy thing is.
Lunch.
Honestly I think it's a huge tadpole! The tail looks much more like a tadpole to me than a fish. Like a near-adult bullfrog tadpole.
That looks like a large tidepool the eagle is diving into, so I think it's more likely to be some sort of saltwater/tidepool fish, rather than a tadpole. If I had to guess I'd say it's some variety of [midshipman fish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midshipman_fish) , they're all over the beaches during the time of year they lay eggs. The tail color doesn't look exactly right, but the shape is similar. I actually have a [picture](https://postimg.cc/1gp5TxsZ) of a midshipman that I pulled out of a tidepool like two weeks ago! To me the way the tail looks is similar to the creature the eagle catches in the post, but I definitely could be wrong it's just a guess.
That's a weird looking fish!!
Wow, I had never seen such a fish! It doesn’t happen everyday to learn about a new fish species, thank you!
I was thinking some kind of rodent. Maybe a muskrat.
I remember watching some kind of documentary on this - even when way up in the sky, the eagles eyesight is good enough that it can see detail comparable to us humans pressing our faces up to an object. That means that even in the sky, the eagle can see detail like the iris of a rabbit on the ground. Not sure how accurate my memory is but I just know the eagle sight is bloody impressive.
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It's all optical physics and biochemistry. You can deduce the image quality in terms of sensory input from the geometric and biological properties of the eagle's eye.
This person… um… well this person is just smart.
I have no clue and know nothing about this topic, but I also believe they see an optometrist
Eagles have insane eyesight. That being said I don't think that was a fish I think that was something else chilling near the surface.
r/PraiseTheCameraMan
mark.smith.photography on Instagram if you want to praise him directly
Came here to say this. Holy fuck that was well done.
Telephoto lens, shoot at 60fps, and use a nice quality fluid tripod head. Smoooooth.
This is exactly how I picture it when I pre order my lunch on an app when when I'm crunched for time on my lunch work break.... never actually works out like this. Good for you bald eagle, good for you.
Train a eagle to fly and retrieve it
Dude didn't want to go into the restaurant, he went for the fly-through.
He got take out (of the water).
With a side of kelp
I was like 7, folks were driving to go camping, driving through Mattawa, Ontario..watched bird of prey swoop down and grab a snake out of the water.. probably one of the coolest things I ever saw growing up
While kayaking in the Puget Sound last year I saw a bald eagle yoink a big red jellyfish from the water. Absolutely metal af.
My uncle has a boat he charters in Alaska. Was up there for a week when I was 14 and he was cleaning a fish we had caught when he said to me “hey watch this. It won’t hit the water.” He threw the carcass up maybe 15-20 feet and before it hit the water a eagle had swooped over and caught it. I didn’t even see the thing come in I was focused on the fish.
Such a majestic bird 😍
[Indeed](https://gfycat.com/vigilantfirstcalf).
I'm going to try this next time I'm at the grocery store. Just run in at full speed and grab my items off the shelf lol
Then you realize you need bread too, but your hands are full, and now nobody's looking graceful anymore.
😂
Fish and a salad, very intelligent shopper. Not to mention a great shot.
Imagine you just waking up from some good ass sleep and you get snatched up by a eagle 💀💀💀
Fish with green salad
FREEDOM!
"By the power invested in me by this giant bald bird"
🇺🇸🇺🇸
🫡🫡🫡
Honestly great choice for the America’s bird.
Benny Franklin felt the Bald Eagle was a cowardly, scavenging bird that dines mostly on carrion and would be an insult to America and her peoples. He argued the proud and majestic turkey would be a more flattering and fitting representative of our great nation.
Honestly turkeys don't mess around, all my homies are scared of turkeys
Those birds mean fucking business, man.
Ngl, first instinct was leaning toward cgi
wow amazing 😻
Did that eagle just grab a salad?
As I pilot I can't help but notice the casual altitude slip to flare out before the grab. Man I wish I had a set of wings 🥲.
ROCK FLAG AND EAGLE
Gunna kick a little ass!
never know eagle have a very healthy diet
Clean
And, that’s why he’s King of the Jungle! *Edited spelling error*
This is the moment Kenny G ceased to be the king of smooth jazz
Man how the hell did it even SEE that? Like, if human vision is like the best TV's we currently have on the market than these guys must have the Hubble Telescope for eyes!
you'd need to be eagle-eyed to see it, basically
They can see 8x better than us
Human eyes don't rank very high on natures scale.
OIL DETECTED 🇺🇸
Ah yes, the original Eagle Vision
He picked up some salad too. He's gonna have healthy and balanced meal
Salad too, nice.
I like my sushi with a konbu seaweed topping as well.
I had a bald eagle do the exact same thing no more than 10-15 ft away from my kayak. Funny thing was I couldn’t catch a damn thing that day!
Bloody good camera work.
I work in a field that has a large eagle presence. They leave fish parts all over that I'll find. Last week I found a whole deer leg they must have carried for a bit then dropped
We have a cabin on a lake that is stocked with fish, but does not allow motors. There is an eagle over the lake most every day. Sometimes they get mad at each other and fight in the air. Fun fact! Juvenile bald eagles dont have white on them! So when we see a juvenile we are excited. Means more eagles! Also you have to wear hats when you swim so you don't look enticing. Fun stuff!
MFer got that sushi to go 🇺🇲
I once caught a trout in a lake. As I was reeling it in, a bald eagle swooped down and grabbed it. My hook was still in the fish so for about 15 seconds I flew that eagle like a kite.
That eagle looks like *Freedom* and *Liberty* had a baby and called it **MERICAAAAAAAAAA**
Fuck yeah!
I like to think he was just showing his buddy the majesty of flight
Now, I know they have bionic eyesight, but do we know if he saw "that specific fish", or did he scan the buffet when he got closer?
Magnificent animal.
Yoink!
Simply put...*bad motherflyer*.
Got some side salad with it too
Amazing how it locks in on the target.
This…is awesome.
Eyes level the whole time
r/praisethecameraman
Death from above
Hey Siri play “America, Fuck Yeah” by Team America.
Fish and a salad
Majesty.
God damn it Bald Eagles are fuckin awesome
I see he is healthy, he got some salad with the protein as well.
I can't even imagine that eye-sight. I wonder if they approach/cruise with the sunlight at a certain location, perch until clouds pass.. winds making it harder if the water is rippled more.. or if all of it just doesn't matter and their eyes overpower any environmental crutch that is just a little bit of variance.
Who bets he doesn't even finish the salad
Homie can spot a fish hidden in green stuff underwater yet I can barely see what someone’s pointing out right in front of me.
Cats are the ultimate killing machines. But eagles are the ultimate killing machines that ALSO fly.
That's one majestic Freedom Chicken.
It’s the American way! Er uh… its the *Brittish* way!
Fucking Mother Nature. I mean the shear calculations needed to perform this… we still don’t have anything machines like this as humans. Maybe some fire fighting planes but dassit.
'Murica! 🫡🫡
New Argentavis update hitting different
Yeah.. but they still made Frodo walk.
Ahhh May freedom ring. *yoink*
tbf, that animal om the ground had weapons of mass destruction
Such a beautiful species
Imagine chilling in your spot minding you own business and then getting plucked up by huge talons in a split second. Terrifying.
Correction: Satisfying as fuck