The Buckets by Greg Cravens for August 25, 2015

That’s why Ben Franklin wanted the turkey as our national bird. (Wild turkeys DO have brains. Domestic bred…not so much.)

Want to see eagles in Alaska go to the trash dumps and landfills the bald eagle is related to the vultures

Marigold always eats majestically!

At least they look dignified.

Today’s comic comes to you by way of the stories my brother tells of when he was a Park Ranger in Olympic National Park. Except it isn’t a child scandalized by a Bald Eagle’s eating habits in his story. It’s an adult, who hurried to the Ranger Station to rat out the Eagle who was being Unmagestic. He thought the rangers should put a stop to it. As if they had a bag of Purina Eagle Chow that wild eagles should be eating every day at three, or something.

Greg: these are stories from your brother? I thought you were charging off a trip to Alaska as a business expense.

Greg: these are stories from your brother? I thought you were charging off a trip to Alaska as a business expense.

Where I live the Bald Eagles eat rainbow trout…

What is Toby so insanely happy about in the first panel? Or has he done something and is acting innocent?

Perhaps a small child would go down nicely, if freshly bathed.

Hee hee hee!

In Ketchikan, they line the rocks of the breakwater, waiting for the buffet to be put out by the fish processing plants.

On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, they wait until the farmer spreads manure on the fields and eat the little critters who are attracted to that. That and barn cats — yep, I saw one with its prey not 25 feet away from the side of the road…

Has Eddie forgotton about the Gift Shop already?

xxx

Sounds like Eddie hasn’t learned about scavengers yet in school. I didn’t know until today that bald eagles are scavengers. Seagulls, buzzards and vultures, yes.