Big Bird is not happy today.

[DemoTex]

Don't mess with the Big Bird. Big Bird will unscrew your head and shit down your neck.


Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in Lake County, Oregon (photo by DemoTex). The Golden Eagle is called "the shark of the sky" for a good reason.

[countryjake]

1. What a beauty!

Thank you for this very apropos thought!

You are one great photographer, DemoTex!

[Wait Wut]

2. Hmmmmm...

...either Big Bird has been eating his veggies or he called up his cousin to take care of business for him.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. pretty. Way off topic - On antique Road show I saw that people collect those things on the

telephone poles. Those glass/ceramic looking things. People collect all kinds of stuff.

[Octafish]

6. Insulators

Glass and ceramic things that keep the electricity off the wooden poles and such.
People grabbing (stealing) them must take precautions to avoid electrocution.

[OriginalGeek]

7. My father in law had a garage full of them

he loved going to garage sales and he just bought every damn thing he saw - AS LONG AS he could dicker with them. If you were selling something for a quarter he'd offer a dime. If you wouldn't come down he went on to the next garage sale. I doubt he cared about 95% of what he bought - he just loved the haggling.

My wife was perpetually vexed by his shopping as he would come home with his weekend haul and call her up to come get most of it. "I got you this muffin tin. Come get it"... "Dad, I don't need or want a muffin tin" ..."It only cost a nickle!"..."I don't care dad, I don't need one - I still have the last 5 you gave me and I don't use them!"

"WELL FINE!"


He thought those insulators would be worth money some day but we checked...they aren't. At least, not the ones he got for 50 cents at garage sales.


He was a funny old man and sometimes I miss him.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. I think they are kinda pretty.

[DemoTex]

8. Check out my lightning chair in the lookout

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. WOW!!!

[pinboy3niner]

4. On Twitter: The Angry Birds just sent me a message: "Mitt's going down..."

The Angry Birds just sent me a message: "Mitt's going down..." #denverdebate #debates

[warrprayer]

5. The Golden Eagle

was hunted by helicopters by ranchers before protective laws were passed. Stills wrote this about it in the '70s - "this country is insane anymore, that's for sure"

[Indpndnt]

9. Lol! Love it!

Beautiful shot. Beautiful bird!

Thanks for posting this.

[lunatica]

10. Cool photograph!

Watch out! Big Bird has cousins!