Whether or not he's single-handedly responsible for dispersing the large number of eagles, there are eyewitness accounts that he disturbed some number of eagles on Wed 11/24 (as well as a bunch of Great Blue Herons who were simulaneously spooked into flight from the island).  

Here is the link to the fredmiranda thread, showing the photo:

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/958660

If you read through the comments in that thread you'll see that although the Conowingo Dam security were notified of the situation they didn't care to take any action.


Sarah B. Anderson
Cabin John, Maryland

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: GREG FUTRAL <>
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Sent: Fri, Nov 26, 2010 6:22 pm
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] trouble at Conowingo Dam (Harford County)


Its on FredMiranda.com.  Its on the wildlife forum, entitled "Conowingo 

Disappointment", and there's a picture of him on the island.  Perhaps he does 

not realize he may be doing harm.  But on the other hand, I counted just 28 or 

so last Saturday...but that was just with the binocs...and a couple of quick 

scans.  

 

> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:31:52 -0500

> From: 

> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] trouble at Conowingo Dam (Harford County)

> To: 

> 

> This is sad news, I hope they catch the guy. 

> 

> Last weekend I was there and there were fewer eagles than our previous visit 

which was a few weeks earlier on 11/06. On 11/06 there had to be a couple 

hundred. It was amazing to see so many.

> 

> 

> We were thinking that on our last visit that the eagles had just moved thru 

already and that was the reason why there were not as many. I had no idea, they 

were bein scared away, that is just awful.

> 

> Eileen,

> Prettyboy

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