Placenta watch
Here we are at Roger Short's farm in Center Valley, south of Chimacum, Washington. Every calving season the eagles come to perch in trees and along the pow...
Read more
Here we are at Roger Short's farm in Center Valley, south of Chimacum, Washington. Every calving season the eagles come to perch in trees and along the power lines waiting for cows to calve. Once the birth is complete, and the placenta delivers, the eagles swoop in to feast on them.
The T-bar you see this eagle perching on is there because eagles were being electrocuted when they had to perch on the same cross-bars the lines are mounted on. Roger had to take zapped eagles to the front desk at the local Puget Sound Energy office before PSE relented and added the T-bars so the eagles could roost without getting cooked.
Read less
The T-bar you see this eagle perching on is there because eagles were being electrocuted when they had to perch on the same cross-bars the lines are mounted on. Roger had to take zapped eagles to the front desk at the local Puget Sound Energy office before PSE relented and added the T-bars so the eagles could roost without getting cooked.
Read less
Mar, 2016Views
15
Categories
Same photographer See all
Discover more photos See all
