Eagle Lady Dies
Verdigroth
16-01-2009, 02:09
Just thought that I would share this with anyone who might find this interesting. The Homer Eagle Lady died recently she was 85. She used to feed the eagles in homer during the winter months and was the target of a local ordinance that banned people from feeding eagles. Except she got an excemption until 2010. Which I guess she won't need now. Homer apparently has been asking biologist what sort of impact they could expect when the feeding ends in the next week.
My guess is be careful taking small dogs for walks.
Just thought that I would share this with anyone who might find this interesting. The Homer Eagle Lady died recently she was 85. She used to feed the eagles in homer during the winter months and was the target of a local ordinance that banned people from feeding eagles. Except she got an excemption until 2010. Which I guess she won't need now. Homer apparently has been asking biologist what sort of impact they could expect when the feeding ends in the next week.
My guess is be careful taking small dogs for walks.
Feeding 200 - 300 eagles daily (http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/JeanKeene.html)?
that's alot of Eagles! :eek:
Collectivity
16-01-2009, 02:21
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_VwU_oS2ErQ
Feed the birds - sung by Mary Poppins
Bellania
16-01-2009, 02:23
Just thought that I would share this with anyone who might find this interesting. The Homer Eagle Lady died recently she was 85. She used to feed the eagles in homer during the winter months and was the target of a local ordinance that banned people from feeding eagles. Except she got an excemption until 2010. Which I guess she won't need now. Homer apparently has been asking biologist what sort of impact they could expect when the feeding ends in the next week.
My guess is be careful taking small dogs for walks.
Did they do a Daily Show story on her? I seem to remember Colbert or Corddry talking to her.
Verdigroth
16-01-2009, 02:31
it's possible she has been feeding them for years..at least a couple decades.
Well, this article (http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/654023.html) gives some suggestions...
City officials said Wednesday that an assistant who has been helping Keene with feeding will be allowed to keep going with existing food supplies, good for seven to 10 days.
The city council would then have to change the law to allow feeding to continue without Keene, at least until spring, when the Eagle Lady customarily shut down her operation and the birds dispersed to resume natural feeding.
Andaluciae
16-01-2009, 02:38
Feeding the birds is such a decent and civilized thing to do. Even if it is several hundred pounds of foul smelling fish.
Collectivity
16-01-2009, 02:41
Tibetans feed the birds by being placed on altars for the birds to devour....that would be a poetic (if messy) way to go.
The Brevious
16-01-2009, 09:43
Tibetans feed the birds by being placed on altars for the birds to devour....that would be a poetic (if messy) way to go.
As agreeable the personalities of the local eagles tend to have at a free meal, they're still kinda slovenly at times, their dinner conversation is terrible, and they're pretty ingracious at most dining incidence.
Collectivity
16-01-2009, 09:49
http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Ca%20to%20H/CLOSE-UP-BALD-EAGLE-EATING..jpg
Tibetans feed the birds by being placed on altars for the birds to devour....that would be a poetic (if messy) way to go.
Fufills a higher function. May even cause somebody you despised in life to get crapped on.
The Brevious
16-01-2009, 09:57
My even cause somebody you despised in life to get crapped on.Ravens are funny that way, too - the "pecking order", if you will.
The Blaatschapen
16-01-2009, 09:58
Time to listen to the song called "Witchy Woman" I guess :)
Skip rat
16-01-2009, 10:17
[QUOTE=Verdigroth;14403551]Just thought that I would share this with anyone who might find this interesting. The Homer Eagle Lady died recently she was 85. She used to feed the eagles in homer during the winter months and was the target of a local ordinance that banned people from feeding eagles. Except she got an excemption until 2010. Which I guess she won't need now. Homer apparently has been asking biologist what sort of impact they could expect when the feeding ends in the next week.
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That's a very deep question for a cartoon character
Questille
16-01-2009, 21:10
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_VwU_oS2ErQ
Feed the birds - sung by Mary Poppins
No. "Eat the birds" was in the original script but neither Mary or the director noticed.
Verdigroth
16-01-2009, 22:33
[QUOTE=Verdigroth;14403551]Just thought that I would share this with anyone who might find this interesting. The Homer Eagle Lady died recently she was 85. She used to feed the eagles in homer during the winter months and was the target of a local ordinance that banned people from feeding eagles. Except she got an excemption until 2010. Which I guess she won't need now. Homer apparently has been asking biologist what sort of impact they could expect when the feeding ends in the next week.
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That's a very deep question for a cartoon character
I refer to Homer, Alaska not Homer Simpson, even if the latter did come to the state.