Off Topic-Hunting Wolves With Eagles
 

This muzzleloader stuff can get too serious. It's time for some diversion. This eagle is called a Berkut. Big ones weigh over 40 pounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re644qgnCtw









Suggested reading: Bird Of Jove

That is a large raptor. I would hate to have a bird that size swoop down and grab me.

Dang thats one big bird.

Their wolves look like our yotes. I don't think that bird wants to jump on one of our Grey wolves.

Speaking of wolves, one collared male crossed over from Oregon to California about 1 month ago.the tree huggers have been wetting all over themselves.hunters here are dreading the idea. mountain lions here are out of control,since they have been protected for 30 years.

They had to extend the wolf season up here in Montana because the quota was not getting met. I think it goes until Feb 15th.

We don't have wolves, but coyotes are sure a problem.

The Quality Deer Management Associations 2010 Whitetail Report covered several coyote studies. The following are quotes from the report.

Cory VanGilder, University of Georgia, conducted a study along with Drs. Grant Woods and Karl Miller. They studied the effects of intense predator removal on whitetail deer recruitment in northeast Alabama. They removed 22 coyotes and 10 bobcats from February through July 2007 on a 2000-acre study site. This reduced the predator abundance indices to nearly zero immediately prior to the fawning season. The result was drastically increased fawn survival from 193 to 256 percent.

University of Georgia student, Bret Howze conducted an even more ambitious study along with Drs. Robert Warren and Karl Miller of predation and whitetail deer recruitment in southwest Georgia. Their study identified two study areas. One 11,000-acre block had 23 coyotes and 3 bobcats removed between January and August 2008. A second 700-acre block was used for a control area and no predators were removed. They revealed that 2 fawns were recruited for every 3 does in the predator removal zone, while it took over 28 does to recruit the same number of fawns in the zone where predators weren’t removed.

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Who wants to split one and go to Montana?

We have a large supply of Bald Eagles where I live. They sure are a fascinating bird to watch. And one afternoon I saw a bird that had to be a golden Eagle. Or an off colored Bald Eagle. I spoke to a warden about it and told him what I saw. He too felt it was a Golden Eagle. But they are very rare around here. Magnificent bird it was. And we have lots of hawks and owls. In fact I had a Hawk fly into the patio door one afternoon. And knocked him self silly. But he sat around for about an hour and finally took off.

IThey used to hunt tigers using two eagles in Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Maybe they still do.