[Rattlesnake Gal]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

About five winters ago, I saw three eagles, that appeared to be a daddy eagle, a mommy eagle, and a junior eagle, and all three landed together on the lake ice as a threesome and all three flew in and easily intimidated three black crows to abandon pecking away at a big, dead grey squirrel out on the lake ice, close to shore.

What happened next? Well, I do declare right here and right now that what that big eagle did cost it my respect.

No, the big eagle did not share the dead squirrel with his two fellow and probably family member eagles. The big eagle flys off while holding the dead squirrel in its' talons to an isolated watery section of ice, about 500 yards off-shore, and sets about eating that squirrel all alone on the ice without sharing any piece of it with his family eagles. It was making some aggresive type moves before flying off with its' meal to let them know the grey squirrel was just for himself.

Not a nice eagle! What a piggy, non-sharing eagle....I tells ya! And, the squirrel was a biggie, maybe 2 or 3lbs, caught in the Hav-a-heart trap, and drowned, and then tossed fresh and not yet frozen out onto the ice

Should we respect the person that bestowed an awful death on the poor squirrel by drowning it? Why not relocate it?

2 or 3 pounds? Isn't squirrel good eats?