‘Deer With Wings’ Causes Power Outage in Montana
- Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:38pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A power company lineman using a pole to remove a young deer carcass that was dropped onto a power line. (AP)
EAST MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana woman photographing a bald eagle in a spruce tree near her house also made a picture of what was left of its prey – a fawn carcass dangling from a power line.
Lee Bridges, of East Missoula, says she photographed the eagle Wednesday morning because she had never seen one so close to her house along the Clark Fork River.
At about the same time, a NorthWestern Energy employee responding to a power outage drove up. Bridges asked what caused the outage and he pointed at the line and said, “it looks like you’ve got a deer with wings.”
The lineman told Bridges the fawn’s carcass hit the first line and swung into another line, sparking the 30-minute outage.
The lineman said he’d never seen anything like it.
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Comments (55)
Mommyof1
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:23pmOk so this is sad but I hope most people see that its the WILD so keep your small animals near home and dont cry if they are snatched up. Circle of life friends. I hope people dont blame the wild animals when a deer comes in, or a bear walks around. This was their land first. We took their place. Sorry for my rant but Im tired of people acting like the wild animals should act like humans.
Report Post »BULLHORSEY
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:11pmTonight on CNN: Democrats offer a bill to ban all electric power lines in the vecinity of 100 miles where deer may live.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 1:19pmHubby said he saw an Eagle with a small dog in it’s talons last weekend, subdivisons are probably good places for hunting. To us dog or cat, to them, dinner. Happens.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:21amEagles do not discriminate, when it comes to survival…and we are headed the same direction if we don‘t get the left’s cortex straightened out.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 9:32amJust another ‘alien’ …the E.T. kind, not the ‘across the border kind”.
Report Post »bosbes
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:51amThe natural world is called ‘the wild’ for one reason – it’s wild.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 4:47amRTS= Rudolph Training School, failure
Report Post »ClockKing
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 2:15amThey killed Rudolph! Those B******!
Report Post »jd200
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 12:15amCan you imagine the mess if that fawn was dropped on to a windmill? Id love to see the left do battle over protecting the eagle and wind power.
Report Post »freightliner1160
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 11:48pmCome on people. This story is NOT fawn-ny. :p
Report Post »crapgame
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 11:29pmGrowing up in northeast pa I have seen alot, but not a fawn of that size caught by an eagle. I would guess that the fawn wieghed between 20-25lbs by the size of it. kind of strange I guess.
Report Post »CommonSensor
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 9:29pmWhat’s next, pigs?……
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 9:18pmIf it tastes like chicken, you can get 4 legs instead of just 2. KFD anyone?
Report Post »ofallon
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 9:10pmFreaky….strange things happen during a full moon.
Report Post »DonaldH
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 9:07pmKillz all the birds-of-prey b4 they gets my yard birdz!!!
Report Post »beechboy90
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 8:49pmI think it was RatBirds! They are extremely resilient and multiply rapidly…. “just play dead!”
Report Post »piper60
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 8:41pmRudolph the red balled reindeer!
Report Post »davidstep
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 8:38pmI am sitting here reading the Blaze and listening to Muse. Damn You Glenn Beck!!!!!
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:22pmI thought that might have been Debbie Wasserman Schultz hanging around.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:32pmNah…she ahs horns but no wings.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:42pmLOL. If she has horns she got them from Obama.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:44pmCheck out the Little Debbie ad at Americanthinker.com. Really funny!
Report Post »Sorry for the off topic stuff.
opaque blinders
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:01pmLooks a little gamey….Don’t you think?
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:33pmA few months after my dog got bit by a rattlesnake we were turning a bend on a dirt road and a hawk flew up above the trees with a snake writhing in it’s talons. It really made me feel like someone was looking after my dog.
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:37pmand ???? did your dog live ?
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:27pmThat’s a good one. I’ve worked with bald eagles in the past and have seen all sorts of animals in their clutches, but never a fawn!
One year an aerie (nest) fell from it’s tree of about five years and when we took it apart we found around 40 little doggie and kittie collars.
So yes, watch your little ones!
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:19pmBirds, fish and deer jumping into powerlines……..good start to this year.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:21pmGuess I should say dropping into power lines! :-)
Report Post »Airb0rne4325
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:10pmMaybe he’s an ecoterrorist, causing massive power outages in protest of urban sprawl? Seem’s about as logical as the stuff they do.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:17pmI thought from the headline that this story would a “Pegasus” type story – except that it’s a deer instead of a horse. It’s amazing that that an eagle can carry away a baby deer (fawn).
When I first adopted my two chihuahuas, my vet warned me to not leave them unattended in my back yard because hawks would try to carry them away. One weighed 2 lbs, and the other 3 lbs.
Report Post »Nobamazone
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 8:23pmThat is a powerful bird, wonder how much the fawn weighed?
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:42pmMay our American eagle do the same thing the the odumbo {BIG EARS!] administration.
Report Post »Whitemountain
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:57pmMy power went out because of that Deer, thats too funny. There are Deer running around all over the place where I live maybe we need to do a little urban hunting?
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:32pm@Whitemountain,are you in New Hampshire?,a beautifull state,an intresting story about the fawn though
Report Post »Whitemountain
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 9:15pmWhitefish, MT is where I live. The last nice place in the USA…
Report Post »jcannon98188
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 2:56amWhy did it have to be a white fish?
Report Post »Racist.
(sorry I had too :D)
selenesteets
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:41pmeerie. beautiful image without the cherry-picker.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:54pmGot to admit this picture is a first…looking at the story at first I wondered if Santa was flying in early to beat the next round of Obama care and unions going after the elves, and got a little too close to the powerlines…
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:12pmHmmmmmmmm, Venison Medium Well. Garlic Mashed, Yellow Squash, By Candlelight
Report Post »ILUVAMERICA
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:27pmUseless Information!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:32pmThe (Obama Deer) was protesting the coal powered electric plant?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:02pmThe eagles will be flying off with little children before you know it. That’s not folklore for no reason you know.
Report Post »Glenn in Virginia
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:06pmDoes Santa Claus know one of his reindeer is missing?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:08pmPeople this could be your pet .. please don’t leave them out on their own … this is not worthless information .. it shows just what these preditors are capable of.
Report Post »tersky
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 7:37pmLot’s of reports of smaller birds of prey than eagles taking small dogs. One of my parents’ neighbors even swears he witnessed a vulture taking a yapping Yorkshire terrier, but it was hawks my parents had to protect their schnauzer puppies from.
Report Post »bryan69
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 8:00pmAnd now the lineman has dinner…Fresh is best, right?
Report Post »chris3
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 9:46pmlet’s see how long it takes for politics to…never mind..obama deer??..I..oh good grief
Report Post »MR_ANDERSON
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:54amAt least it’s cooked!
Report Post »Evileye
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:57amSeveral years ago a Golden Eagle attached a toddler playing in the yard in Eastern Washington state.
Report Post »the mother drove it off with a broom.
I have seen them pick up rabbit then drop them to kill the rabbit.
I assume this was what was happening to the fawn but it hit the power line.
kind of like tenderizing your steak
Sheepdog911
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 12:50pmFirst it was Chico the Chihuahua, now it’s poor little Bambi. Raptors (large birds of prey) eat small critters like Chico and Bambi or even poor little Nemo. Sorry CATB, think about how cruel this all is next time you chew on a bite of a hamburger. At least the Eagle didn’t get fried going back for its lost meal.
Report Post »@ Coyote2
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:54pmBald eagles are one of the worst predators on earth next to jews.
Report Post »@ Coyote2
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:59pmhttp://tinyurl.com/45djnbh These are about to fledge.
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