Thread: Decorah Eagle update

Thank You very much!

My friend and I was fishing the dead water below Truman Dam a few years back and there was a huge Bald Eagle on a low level branch in a tree watching us fish. I hooked a small crappie deep in it's mouth was bleeding badly so I released it and a few minutes later it came to the surface splashing around, the eagle came down and picked it out of the water less than 20 ft. from the boat. My friend and I looked at each other amazed, it was pretty cool, it went back to the same branch and ate it's easy meal.

I was watching that off and on today while she was feeding her chicks and that looks more like a Muskrat and it also looks like there is what remains of a Crow in the nest. Pretty cool either way.

Originally Posted by Bigby

My friend and I was fishing the dead water below Truman Dam a few years back and there was a huge Bald Eagle on a low level branch in a tree watching us fish. I hooked a small crappie deep in it's mouth was bleeding badly so I released it and a few minutes later it came to the surface splashing around, the eagle came down and picked it out of the water less than 20 ft. from the boat. My friend and I looked at each other amazed, it was pretty cool, it went back to the same branch and ate it's easy meal.

That'd definitely be worth tradin a fish for. One of them times you'd kill for a video, huh?

Watching it feed the two little ones right now. looks like one egg still unhatched. The animal I thought someone sad was a rabbit but looks like a opposum or muskrat with the long tail that it has. Pretty neat to see it pick the meat off then give it to the little ones.