Now Here's a New One.

[Capt. Charlie]

And I thought hunting deer from the air was illegal .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110617/us_nm/us_deer_power

Parents, hide your kids, or weigh them down with concrete blocks !

Seriously, has anyone seen or heard of anything like this? And if you could train an eagle to hunt for you, would fish & game consider you the hunter, or the bird?

 

[Scorch]

Eagles are known to take lambs quite frequently, so a fawn is not a big stretch of the imagination. And hunting with eagles (or any bird of prey) is called falconry, and is generally covered in hunting regulations.

 

[Art Eatman]

Somewhere on the Internet is a video of an eagle attacking and clubbing a yearling deer. Enough repeated strikes such that the deer finally went down. Lunch...

 

[shortwave]

Talk about 'having a bad day'.

Poor fawn!

Some days it just better to stay in bed.

 

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Saw on some nature show where eagles would knock baby mountain goats off ledges and then go to the body.

 

[C0untZer0]

That's awesome. I think Golden Eagles are slightly bigger than Bald Eagles, taking a fawn is pretty awsome.

I wonder if the eagle was a butterfingers or if he dropped the fawn on the wires for some well-done venison.

 

[Art Eatman]

COuntZerO, it might have been fatigue and weight limit. I've read guesstimations that around eight pounds is max for sustained carry.

 

[T. O'Heir]

"...'There's your problem -- a flying deer..." Sounds like something Red Green would say.