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Re: SV: BALD EAGLE! yikes!





On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Amtoine Grant wrote:
On 4-Sep-09, at 12:00 PM, Tommy Tyrberg wrote:

...
I do know how overwhelming a Haliaeetus eagle can be very close up. I
was once standing near a cliff at a large lake in Sweden counting
ducks,
when a White-Tailed Eagle that had been roosting unnoticed in the
forest
behind me suddenly flew out just over my head. It literally almost
made
me fall over the cliff edge.

Tommy Tyrberg

I'd have to say you're very lucky it wasn't a hungry golden. You

Would that have bee a first? A human taken by an eagle?

could've ended up like these unfortunate fellas: http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFOVi0vJGU
...

Seen this footage before. Where was this taken?