MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA
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They got 'em here. Little ones, big ones, and in-between ones; forks, buckets and scissors. Milpitas, California.
Juvenile eagle just knows how to fly, sometimes he fails to land on the treetop, then cycles back and tries again.
Still some leaves on the trees, and construction pipeline multiplying in the sun.
Milpitas, California
Roaming around Milpitas, shooting graffiti. Mostly, it's just crap vandalism, but once in a while...I'm not saying it's good, or even that I like it. Just saying it caught my eye. Made me stop and say "Hmm".
Milpitas, California.
Bufflehead flapping its wings had fun in the pond searching for fish all day long without worries about the surrounding
Roaming around the Milpitas Railyard a few years ago. This building is no longer there.
Milpitas, California.
With the ANPMI's autorack setout completed at Benicia, the crew starts it's westbound journey to Milpitas.
Photographed in Milpitas, California, U.S.A.
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For some years now, a pair of Bald Eagles have nested in a large redwood tree in front of Curtner Elementary School, located at 275 Redwood Ave, in Milpitas, California. Remarkably, the school is right in the middle of a subdivision and allows reasonably close up viewing and photography throughout the year. Even when the next is empty of eggs or nestlings, the eagle pair can usually be seen either perched in the trees or bringing additional branches to add to the nest.
When the nestlings fledge in June or July, they usually stay in the area for weeks before moving on to other locations.
Follow the link below to get an overview of where the eagle nest is located in the neighborhood. A photo taken from the back of the school, showing the 6 or 7 redwood trees in the front of the school, is located in the upper left corner.
www.google.com/maps/place/Curtner+Elementary+School/@37.4...
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From Wikipedia: The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the Palearctic. Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.
The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish, which it swoops down and snatches from the water with its talons. It builds the largest nest of any North American bird and the largest tree nests ever recorded for any animal species, up to 4 m (13 ft) deep, 2.5 m (8.2 ft) wide, and 1 metric ton (1.1 short tons) in weight. Sexual maturity is attained at the age of four to five years.
Bald eagles are not actually bald; the name derives from an older meaning of the word, "white headed". The adult is mainly brown with a white head and tail. The sexes are identical in plumage, but females are about 25 percent larger than males. The yellow beak is large and hooked. The plumage of the immature is brown.
The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States of America and appears on its seal. In the late 20th century it was on the brink of extirpation in the contiguous United States. Populations have since recovered, and the species was removed from the U.S. government's list of endangered species on July 12, 1995, and transferred to the list of threatened species. It was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the contiguous states on June 28, 2007.
Description:
The plumage of an adult bald eagle is evenly dark brown with a white head and tail. The tail is moderately long and slightly wedge-shaped. Males and females are identical in plumage coloration, but sexual dimorphism is evident in the species, in that females are 25% larger than males. The beak, feet and irises are bright yellow. The legs are feather-free, and the toes are short and powerful with large talons. The highly developed talon of the hind toe is used to pierce the vital areas of prey while it is held immobile by the front toes. The beak is large and hooked, with a yellow cere. The adult bald eagle is unmistakable in its native range.
The plumage of the immature is a dark brown overlaid with messy white streaking until the fifth (rarely fourth, very rarely third) year, when it reaches sexual maturity.
Diet and feeding:
The bald eagle is an opportunistic carnivore with the capacity to consume a great variety of prey. Throughout their range, fish often comprise the majority of the eagle's diet. In 20 food habit studies across the species' range, fish comprised 56% of the diet of nesting eagles, birds 28%, mammals 14% and other prey 2%. More than 400 species are known to be included in the bald eagle's prey spectrum, far more than its ecological equivalent in the Old World, the white-tailed eagle, is known to take.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle
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