Pfft one dead eagle from lead poisoning.
Upper Mississippi sees a lot more than that around deer season. USFWS gather them for analysis.
There has been a push for quite awhile now to ban lead bullets the Secretary of the Interior just overturned a ban on lead bullets a couple of years ago that was based on protecting Eagles. But imagine it is only a matter of time before it happens. Despite the fact that the population of Eagles has been rapidly expanding.
Have mainly baldies here, some Golden in the winter. The Golden are in the bluffs an hour or so away from the river. I live an hour from the Miss. and there are several pairs of resident baldies that fly over the house all the time.
I shoot Eagles. In the winter they will take a coot they are welcome to all they can eat as far as I care. Most of the time prefer fish if they can get it.
They would rather steal from each other than work for their own given the chance. And as someone else mentioned have seen dozens of them pick through manure in a field after it has been spread.
This field is a quarter mile from my house and this juvi was picking apart a road kill deer.
While these other 2 decided fighting each other was more important.
Given half a chance they would rather be a scavenger or thief than work for food from what I have observed.
