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Re: Bald eagles in Metro Detroit

Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 6:09 pm
by TC Talks
There have been Bald Eagles around Cranbrook since forever. That area was estates and farms until the 1960s. Bloomfield Open Hunt Club used to host Fox Hunts as late and 1965 in the woods and pastures in the surrounding area. I can't say I am aware of them in Birmingham, but I know DDT really reduced the population in the 1970s.

Re: Bald eagles in Metro Detroit

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:27 pm
by MichMash
Within the last couple of days, a post appeared my neighborhood's news feed on Nextdoor. A resident of Northville found an injured bald eagle in her yard and wanted to know how to be of help. She was directed to a local rescue who came out to gather up the bird. Apparently the rescue determined that the bird wasn't actually injured, but was inadvertently poisoned. There's a serious rat problem in the Northville area and residents have taken to setting out rat poison in an attempt to eliminate the pests. What they didn't realize is that the rats die, but the carcasses retain the poison. Then other creatures who see rats as a food source are consuming the poisoned carcasses and becoming poisoned themselves.

A follow-up post by the Northville resident this morning seemed to indicate the eagle did not survive. The moral, as always: people who use rat poison suck. There's other ways to eliminate rats that won't harm other innocent creatures.