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Sea Eagle

uploaded by scrumsrus September 23, 2008 at 02:09 pm
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Tags: Nature, Environment, birds, bird, farmers, death, sand, Scotland, Sheep, heritage, sea, Natural, Eagle, LAMB, KILLED, raptor, predators, aberdeenshire, scottish, blame, seabird, Highlands, Rspb, Crofters, Huntly, falconry, seaeagle, Gairloch

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NP! ID: 1717657

Title: Sea Eagle

File Size: 768 × 1024 – 464.73 KB

Created: Tue, 09/23/2008 - 2:09pm

Modified: Tue, 09/23/2008 - 2:49pm

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scrumsrus

at 14:11 on September 23rd, 2008

It's possible that the Sea Eagles have taken a few very weak young lambs that have been abandoned by the ewe, but there is no way that 15 birds took over 200 lambs - it's just not possible. They may have scavenged on already dead lambs but they couldn't have killed that number. It's a case of old predjudices comming to the fore with the bird being reintroduced, but they just don't hold up to invesstigation. When the RSPB checked the nests they did not discover any signs of lamb remains at all, NO wool, NO bones, nothing.