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Old 03-23-2009, 02:37 PM
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We live on Paradise Lake by the Archery range and so far this year (we arrived in Nov) we have had 8 sighting of eagles on the lake. In the five winters we have been here we have never seen them before this year. It's been so exciting to watch them fishing. It's funny that we have never seen an eagle try to take a duck from the lake. They seem like easy pickings. Once we had an eagle try to pick up a seagull but couldn't. When we looked through the binocs we saw that there were 2 seagulls that were hooked together beak to beak via a fishing lure and that's why the eagle tried to get it. That's some eyesight!
PS my husband and I caught the 2 seagulls when they came near shore and he was able to remove the hook and they both flew away. We love a happy ending here on the lake.