A bald eagle made eye contact with me

He assessed the threat and found you unthreatening.

That’s quite the ocular pat down

He could kick your ass with his t-shirt and a beer if he wanted to!

Assessed the food, and found it unappetizing.

I always wonder what murders of crows are talking about up there on those power lines, looking down at the strange, but tasty food-dropping, bipedal creatures they watch all day.

I bet sometimes they're like "I kinda want that dudes burger... How many of us do you think we'd need to take him?" And then they have their typical crow debates about the non-aggression principle.

So he pretty much called that man a pussy?

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“Food? No. Threat? No. Meh.”

If FOOD, then ATTACK 1 (use talons to kill AND beak to ingest)

Or if THREAT, then ATTACK 2 (use TALONS to kill BUT BEAK to not ingest (fully).

Else, if not FOOD, then MEH (do nothing).

While for not do?

Can anyone program/code “a simple eagle” like this, but do a better job? (Hint, there is no god…)

Imagine that. This guy spreads his wings and is already bigger than most humans [6ft wingspan]

Is that food? turns head can I eat that? ... nope, can't eat that till it dies, maybe there's something over there I can kill it with so I can swoop down and eat it

I am the eye in the sky, looking at you

I can read your mind

I am the maker of rules, dealing with fools

I can cheat you blind

That’s incredible! Those things hunt and kill wolves! I mean imagine the shit that bird has done up to that point in its life.

My cousin and I were on a canoeing trip this past fall in Northern Michigan. We watched a bald eagle swoop down, kill a squirrel, then fly back to a tree to eat it. It was the most badass thing I've ever seen

Bull shit. Bald eagles might be able to hunt down grown wolves, but there's no chance in hell they can ALSO hunt squirrels. /s

Don't let em get you down. The person you replied to relayed something they heard about. You actually watched that awesome thing occur. I appreciated it.

My uncle is a hobbyist fisherman in Canada in an area with bald eagles. They wait in the trees for scraps of fish after being gutted/cleaned on the beach.

One time he told me that one day the catches were sparse and after an hour of nothing he felt something hit his ear and it was an EAGLE speeding past his head, apparently impatient and trying to coax my uncle into working harder.

Bald eagles are fucking intimidating. Back in college in front of one of the buildings, a bunch of them would land every year. They sit around like they rule the place. Its a pretty graceful sight. They have zero concern about people. They walk around on the pavement, make eye contact. Scary fuckers like they know that you are in their territory. But never aggressive though. They'll do fake charges, do a little hop+ fly/float thing but nothing beyond that. Never heard anyone getting attacked.

I’ve never really understood the hysteria about the bald eagle. There are some really powerful and majestic eagles, like the wedge-tailed and golden eagles, that make the bald eagle look like fancy Mardi Gras chicken scavenging for fish and preying on small rodents