What was It?
September 9th, 2009Late this morning we were visiting with a friend in our backyard. As we visited we heard a squawling bawling noise from across the creek in the woods. It sounded to me like a young bear. Then an eagle flew out from behind the trees and landed in a cottonwood tree along the creek. Then another eagle emerged, and another, and yet another. At least 4 eagles that looked like immature balds landed in the tree. They sat for a few minutes and then flew down the creek, leaving whatever was in the woods alone.
We discussed what possibly could have happened. Perhaps a bear had come upon the eagles eating a carcass by following his nose, and had chased them off to claim it for himself.
Deb and I decided to go across the creek and check it out for outselves. Grabbing our video camera, and a rifle, we headed for the creek. We waded across and into the thicket on the other side. We pushed through the brush as quietly as we could and finally emerged in some more open timber that allowed us about 75 yards of visibility through the trees. We glassed the area repeatedly as we slowly made our way through the area expectig at any time to see a bear feeding on whatever it had taken from the eagles. We spent 45 minutes slowly creeping through the thick brush looking and listening. But in the end we found nothing, no bear, no eagles, and no sign of a struggle, no blood or hair.