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22 Jun 2014, 11:26 pm

No,wasn't thinking of them,but they'd drive me away.Are they really nesting in areas with people that close?That would make it more difficult.I'd remove the nest after they were gone,maybe after a storm,oops,it blew down :wink: then make it undesirable for them to return,they'd fly away if you shot close by,or maybe turn some kids loose with some firecrackers,no shooting bottle rockets at the birds.
If someone was monitoring it all the time it'd make it hard to use predator decoys to scare them off,they wouldn't believe those plastic bobcats were yard ornaments.
I've scared off birds from a cherry tree with a big plastic owl,I moved it around so it was never in the same place.


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22 Jun 2014, 11:47 pm

I wanna see Eagles!! !!



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23 Jun 2014, 12:03 am

They're actually really loud, and at odd hours too. When I lived on Bainbridge Island, I had a pair nesting in the green belt across from my house, and they make a hell of a racket with the screeching and this odd whistling warble that they make, it's pretty disconcerting if you have pets that fall into the size range of their prey.


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23 Jun 2014, 12:23 am

Minneapolis is lousy with them. We have lakes everywhere, and the eagles like to fish off the edge of the ice in the spring. They are NOT dainty eaters, that's for sure.



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23 Jun 2014, 6:10 am

That's really interesting! Maybe that (combined with being not neurotypical) is why I always accidentally offend my friend because I speak my mind and how I see things and if I were a liberal I'd do that less



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23 Jun 2014, 6:53 am

Dox47 wrote:
They're actually really loud, and at odd hours too. When I lived on Bainbridge Island, I had a pair nesting in the green belt across from my house, and they make a hell of a racket with the screeching and this odd whistling warble that they make, it's pretty disconcerting if you have pets that fall into the size range of their prey.


Can relate to that. I always try to get my cats into the house during the night (dinner = closed door afterward), because we have some eagle owls in the area. Normally, they are catching mouses and other small animals, but they have as well be seen catching field rabbits, that have about 12 pounds around here. I really dont wanna know, if the difference between a field rabbit or an cat, is of importance for them. Still they are beautiful animals.

But I agree, I would wait until there are no younglings, and then try to encourage them to move their nest.



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25 Jun 2014, 12:16 am

Raptor wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2840112/posts

A study published in the Journal of Legal Tax Research confirms that liberals take tax evasion less seriously. One in the Journal of Business Ethics found that conservatives have "higher levels of ethical values." This shouldn't surprise many people. According to a Pew Research poll, the liberals who relentlessly advocate higher taxes are three times more likely than conservatives to think it's okay to cheat when paying them. They are more than twice as likely to excuse getting paid under the table so as to keep collecting unemployment benefits. Liberals also have less of a problem with shoplifting and buying stolen goods.


Well, conservatives have less of a problem with bombing children in foreign countries, so you know...



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25 Jun 2014, 12:25 am

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Well, conservatives have less of a problem with bombing children in foreign countries, so you know...


Do they? Liberals seem just fine with it when it's a Clinton or an Obama doing it, it's only when people named Bush, or anyone who's name is followed by an 'R' do it that they decide to have a problem.


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25 Jun 2014, 10:07 am

I'm not fine with it.I have nothing against a strong military,it's what we send them to do,them they come back broken and the VA doesn't seem to want to help.Don't send them if you are not willing to take care of them when they get back.


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25 Jun 2014, 12:04 pm

Dox47 wrote:
donnie_darko wrote:
Well, conservatives have less of a problem with bombing children in foreign countries, so you know...


Do they? Liberals seem just fine with it when it's a Clinton or an Obama doing it, it's only when people named Bush, or anyone who's name is followed by an 'R' do it that they decide to have a problem.


Democrats? Sure. Liberals? Not if they have any clue what leftist politics actually is. Clinton was bad enough, but Obama is way worse when it comes to illegal acts of aggression. Hillary is going to be every bit as terrible.