Got Robbed today....

[gasman]

by a Bald Eagle 

Went out to JBLM with Low97ram today duck hunting. After the birds quit flying we did some jump shooting. Snuck up on about 20+ ringneck and dropped 2 of them.
Didn't have the dog with us so we had to put the pod in the water to retreive them. as soon as we turned out back an eagle swooped down and stole one of the ducks  and by the time Pete got out there to get the other one, the darn eagle swooped down stole the other one 

If I knew we were going to be robbed, i would have had my camera ready instead of my gun 

[400out]

To bad! but who else has a story like that! Even though nobody will believe you 

[carpsniperg2]

  That's to funny

[gasman]

After we dropped a couple ducks first thing this morning, the eagle showed up and pearched him self on a tree behind us, waiting for an oppertunity to steel a duck  but as soon as the birds quit flying, he left, untill he heard gun shots again 

[littlemac]

Tricky bird, I wish you had that camera too!

At least you know who's eating duck breast!

[D-Rock425]

Damb birds if it flys it dies you know what should have been done after all you would've just been protecting your property 

[sled]

  Beats getting robbed at the ATM.

[ing]

I've had a hawk do the same thing.  I dropped a teal on the far side of the slough and our pup wouldnt swim across.  When we got to the other side the hawk flushed out of the cattails and flew off with the duck.

[Kola16]

I ya, and I shot a trophy 20x25 deer, but a grizzly came and stole it and they are protected in Washington so I couldn't shoot

[sakoshooter]

Pretty common at Nisqually. You've got to send the dog right away. I folded a widgeon a couple years ago and an eagle caught before it hit the ground. I couldn't believe my eyes. My lab was even confused. This year one of my labs had just turned around with a bird when an eagle swooped down a split second too late. It hovered just above my yellow half way back to the blind. My buddy sarcastically asked while it was happening if I was going to shoot it if it grabbed the dog but it flew up about 10 yds out. That's pretty aggressive if ya ask me. Worse than the eagles at Nisqually are the sea lions. They'll take a cripple before your dog can get to it some days. My son lived in Sitka, AK for about 8 years and had lots of stories about sea lions taking ducks. He even had one grab his black lab one time on a retrieve but let go right away.

[wadu1]

  Beats getting robbed at the ATM.

I lost a mallard drake this year to an eagle the same way; I had that one down and a bunch work my decoys poped another and went to retreve both just in time to see baldy flying away with it. The next weekend I poped two specks and retrieved both on the way back to the blind I had a flock of caklers gliding in low; boy limited out by 0800 but baldy got in the way he grabbed the lead goose when they were about 50 yards in front of me. Today at the club next to ours I heard them yelling that they lost one in the tall grass; and hour later I was watching baldy circling over the area and bang he was down and back up with a duck.

[hunting4sanity]

I've seen it happen multiple times.  My son and I were jump shooting a pond we knew had a pintail drake, he wanted to get one mounted, he shot the drake but it flew out a ways before folding up - in swoops a hawk and even with us yelling at it by the time we got to the drake it was beyond taxidermy.

[BOWHUNTER45]

  this happens alot hunting the bay ....

[becker]

it happens often to us hunting the pend oreille river.

[bearpaw]

hunters for the hungry....