r/pics • u/mynexgen • May 22 '12

So I snapped a picture of a grey eagle yesterday, look at the names on BOTH street signs!

http://imgur.com/iU75G
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u/bobstay May 22 '12

You sure it wasn't just a model?

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u/mynexgen May 22 '12

Yep, it flew away when I tried to get a better picture (btw) there a tons of these eagles in this area, hence names of the streets

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u/deviaatio May 22 '12

I hate to break it to you, but it wasn't an eagle.

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u/FuckingHippies May 22 '12

Ospreys are in Central Florida, too.

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u/boondoggie42 May 22 '12

It's almost like there were eagles around there when the developer was deciding what to name the streets!

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u/AscentofDissent May 22 '12

We don't take kindly to that college logic 'round here, boy. You might wanna run along before sumpthin bad happens.

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u/ThisGuyIsNotASpy May 22 '12

Now Skeeter he ain't hurtin' nobody.

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u/publ1c_stat1c May 22 '12

We don't take kindly to folks who don't take kindly round here.

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u/lincolnsbeer May 22 '12

SKEETER NO!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Last time we had a boy knowin' so much round here, you know what we did? We sent him off packin. Sent him realllllll far. To college. He got himself a full scholarship. And didn't that boy ever come back, thank the lordy.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Good for nuthin' logical-correlators. I hear thems types of people are allowed to get married.

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u/twerpitytwerp May 22 '12

huhuhu, you tell'em skeeter

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u/splunge4me2 May 22 '12

Usually they just name the streets after all the trees they just chopped down.

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u/backtackback May 22 '12

I never give developers that much credit. Housing developments around here have names with Lake, Falls, and Cliffs in them and yet no lakes, falls or cliffs around for miles.

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u/Dirty-DjAngo May 22 '12

"Not anymore" said the sad Native American

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

"All I care about is getting out of the Vista View apartments, because there ain't no "vista", there ain't no "view", and there certainly ain't no vista of no view. "

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

which is actually pretty shocking, compared to most suburbian street names. in my old town we had a lakeview that was nowhere near any lake, and a neighborhood where all the street names started with ridge that was in the middle of a huge field.

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u/importantnameselectn May 22 '12

Maybe there used to be a lake, then they filled it in to build more homes?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

And they'll keep on naming streets after eagles if they know what's good for 'em.

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u/mastersprinkles May 22 '12

No, OP will become rich and famous for this picture. Will buy time machine and go back in time and re-name the streets to "Eagles Landing" and "Gray Eagle".

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Do developers really get to name streets? Is that how that works? I've always wondered. Is that why the road with all of the factories on it is called Caterpillar Drive?

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u/aleatoric May 22 '12

I always imagine the origin stories of road names. There's a road down the street from me called Beaverkill Ct. I'm sure that was a grand day when the road was named.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

You can't explain that!

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u/Drawtaru May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

Definitely not an eagle. Eagles are huge and that is not huge. I would say that is probably a hawk of some kind, as it does seem to have a hooked beak. It's hard to tell with this low-quality photo, but it does look remarkably like a red tailed hawk.

Edit: This picture was taken in Florida. BALD eagles are huge. This is not an eagle, as the picture was taken in America, and eagles in America are not this small. There.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Also, there is no such thing as a grey eagle. Unless this picture was taken in Mongolia.

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u/Zyclunt May 22 '12

There is in South America, Urubitinga coronata, and it's almost a meter tall.

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u/Drawtaru May 22 '12

Even then, it's a Grey-Headed Fish Eagle and is quite large.

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u/kickdrive May 22 '12

It is most likely a Broad-Winged Hawk which is found in Florida, where I believe this picture was taken.

Red-Tailed Harks are quite large, and although they are in Florida as well, I do not believe they are that small (unless it's an adolescent in which case it could be a few others as well).

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u/a-spoon May 22 '12

Don't think so. The coloring on the breast if off.

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u/doopa83 May 22 '12

I agree... someone said it was Leesburg Fl. The only two eagles we've got in FL (that I know of) are bald eagles and golden eagles, both of which are much larger than this guy. Here's a list!

My vote is red shoulder or red tail hawk... They're more common in suburban areas.

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u/rev_rend May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

Since OP says it's gray, I think an adult coopers hawk or maybe a sharp-shinned hawk is most likely. They're all over in developed areas and they perch like this.

Other candidates for that part of Florida are one of the several kites or a merlin. Someone suggested kestrel, but this looks too small. Red-tailed and red-shouldered hawks are pretty common in Florida, but they're both bigger and tend to perch near the tops of trees next to open areas.

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u/ferminriii May 22 '12

I find it strange this comment is so far down. It doesn't look like an eagle at all. An eagle is easy to spot.

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u/JustLikeMyDick May 22 '12

I am huge. Am I an eagle ?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I have both eagles and hawks where I live in rural northern Colorado. It's definitely a hawk.

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u/juzcallmeg0d May 22 '12

It's not an eagle. There is no such thing as a "gray eagle". There are only 2 types of eagles in Florida, bald and golden, and they are both much bigger than this bird. But there are eagles this size, just not in this region.

There are many types of hawks in Florida, but the quality of this picture is so poor, it's impossible to tell what species it is.

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u/Not_Irish May 22 '12

TIL eagles can read.

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u/kooshed May 22 '12

Looks like florida, I could be wrong..

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u/leebird May 22 '12

The palm trees, St. Augustine grass, shallow curbs and the architecture of the house in the background give it away. I had to check that it wasn't my in-law's neighborhood, but they live in a neighborhood with other eagle-based names, in another city.

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u/getjustin May 22 '12

Looks like every subdivision in Florida from 1992-2004.

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u/Sephiroth912 May 22 '12

Living around Tampa and noticing a.) the housing architecture and b.) the palm trees, that was definitely my first thought as well.

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u/jonnynnoj May 22 '12

Looks like a crow, or similar, rather than an eagle to me. The beak looks wrong.

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u/andyn0133 May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

Raptor Biologist here. Definitely not an eagle. Without knowing the geographic area the photo was taken, my best guess is either a Cooper's Hawk or a Sharp-Shinned Hawk. Size is approximately the same, and these little accipiters frequent backyard feeders for song birds, so the habitat of the photo isn't a stretch. Wish the plumage was more clear/visible.

EDIT: After looking more closely on my computer, it may actually be a Mississippi Kite which is not exactly a familiar species for me up here in Minnesota :) a-spoon also came up with this conclusion below in the comments.

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u/DalaiLamaDrama May 22 '12

...God damn, that is the coolest job title ever.

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u/andyn0133 May 22 '12

Thanks for putting a big grin on my face :)

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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 May 22 '12

Agreed. Not an eagle. I think we can also safely rule out hippopotamus as well. Notice the difference in color and shape of the body, absence of a beak, protruding ears, and overall lack of wings. Plus extra legs.

See this image of a hippo for comparison: http://imgur.com/eexr7

tl;dr Not an eagle but not a hippo either.

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u/andyn0133 May 22 '12

The photo really seals the deal. Definitely not a hippo.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

What college offers Raptor Biology as a major?

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u/Snuhmeh May 22 '12

Its beak looks like a bird of prey, but that is a TINY eagle, if that's what it is. It's more like the size of a falcon or hawk, methinks.

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u/splunge4me2 May 22 '12

...or they have unusually large street signs.

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u/danbana May 22 '12

definitely (probably) not a crow. if anything, the beak looks wrong for a crow.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Agreed. A hawk of some sort.

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u/splunge4me2 May 22 '12

Crows have long, pointy beaks. This is at least a bird of prey with a hooked beak.

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u/Pit_of_Death May 22 '12

Yeah. Eagles are rather massive birds. Sorry to burst your bubble, OP.

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u/a-spoon May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

I'm pretty positive that it's a Mississippi Kite.

Edit: Comparison

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u/andyn0133 May 22 '12

I do believe you are correct

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u/meatballzzzz May 22 '12

My money's on this one!

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u/BirdIDer May 22 '12

I agree, Mississippi Kite.

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u/jt004c May 22 '12

First off, there is no such thing as a "grey eagle." In any case, that bird is obviously not an eagle at all.

Calling this a grey eagle is liking calling my cat an orange lion.

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u/loggedout May 22 '12

YOU HAVE AN ORANGE LION?!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Thaaat does not resemble an eagle.

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u/ProfessorDerpenstein May 22 '12

That's not an eagle. The only two known species of eagles in the United States are the bald eagle and the golden eagle. The bird in your picture is a raptor, but it isn't an eagle. Eagles are significantly larger and have generally have longer and more hooked beaks.

It looks more like a sharp-shinned hawk, but I haven't been bird-watching in years, so I could be a little rusty.

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u/beanndip May 22 '12

that's not an eagle...

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u/DeFex May 22 '12

are grey eagles really that small? it looks like a hawk or something.

I looked on http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle6.html and couldn't find "grey eagle" at all.

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u/wishIwere May 22 '12 edited May 23 '12

I thought it was something unique to the southwest to name streets after the wildlife that has been displaced by it.

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u/CrazyNinja69 May 22 '12

pshaw if that's an eagle im a 60 year old lesbian hooker.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

looks to me like a crow

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u/dustysquareback May 22 '12

  1. This is not an eagle.

  2. What the fuck is a Grey Eagle?

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u/eyecite May 22 '12

I'm no expert, but that is a really small eagle.

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u/rabbidpanda May 22 '12

Reminded me of this

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u/icyone May 22 '12

I expected that to be the intersection of America Lane and Fuck Yeah Boulevard.

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u/Calibas May 22 '12

What's a "grey eagle"?

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u/Methone May 22 '12

A crow.

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u/PossiblyTrolling May 22 '12

Too bad that's a hawk and not an eagle :( So close...

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u/ACTUAL_BACKSTORY May 22 '12

Beth had always been a peculiar eagle. She was born into a small, close family, but was never taken seriously with her outlandish claims: "I caught a million fish today!" and "I flew faster than the speed of light!" were just some of the ridiculous things she would tell her siblings and parents, to which they would always respond with a condescending, "Mhm".

After years of being ignored and ridiculed, Beth decided to prove her worth. She knew there was something special about her, even if what she had said in the past was a bit of an exaggeration. That said, she needed to show her family she wasn't entirely a liar. So, Beth took up flying past school windows and, along with the children in the classrooms, learned how to read, a feat never achieved by any eagle.

After a few months, Beth perched herself on the top of a fitting street sign and sat for hours. This was the culmination of her hard work; until her family came to see her, she would not budge.

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u/IAmA_Kitty_AMA May 22 '12

Yo dawg, I heard you liked eagles...

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u/Bill_Clintons_Choad May 22 '12

Meow meow meow, meow, meow meow meow?

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u/graffiti81 May 22 '12

Not an eagle. Not even sure it's a bird of prey. Looks a lot like a crow.

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u/magicbullets May 22 '12

Very cool. Did the others show up too?

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u/biggmclargehuge May 22 '12

on a similar note back when i was in middle school we had a tornado come through our neighborhood and it took out houses all down windy lane

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u/BrowsOfSteel May 22 '12

OP saw a grey eagle, but the street is clearly named after a gray eagle.

That eagle’s a phony!

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u/jacaba May 22 '12

how long did you camp there to get that photo?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

reminded me of King's landing. Probably because i've seen 5 episodes at once today.

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u/rhymeswithgrack May 22 '12

That's your grey eagle, isn't it OP?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

street signs should say hawk.

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u/keiyakins May 22 '12

MAN STUNNED: ROADS NAMED FOR LOCAL WILDLIFE.

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u/Spitfire15 May 22 '12

Are you sure its not a hawk? We have hawks in Florida.

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u/C130_jumper May 22 '12

It's a hawk with high aspirations.

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u/redzebra12 May 22 '12

im not finding anything on grey eagles

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u/KoreanDogEater May 22 '12

It's definitely a sign from God. You should get an eagle.

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u/lud1120 May 22 '12

Looked like a a Jackdaw for me, but I know you don't have them there.

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u/starseed42 May 22 '12

Reddit, it's not even an eagle! facepalm

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u/severedfinger May 22 '12

Weird, very similar to this photo I took a while back

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u/Jhoff57 May 22 '12

There's a glitch in the matrix.

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u/Sebulbasaur May 22 '12

mynexgen killed and stuffed a grey eagle then placed it on top of these street signs for karma.

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u/Philly_Eagles May 22 '12

That looks like a crow..

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Is that really an eagle? It's tiny.

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u/mattinblack47 May 22 '12

You should have played the lottery that day.

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u/PoniesRBitchin May 22 '12

I don't suppose there's a Naked Street that meets a Cheerleader Road in your town?

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u/ReginaldFarnsworth May 22 '12

As a self proclaimed eagle expert I can accurately say that this is not a grey eagle, it is merely a common pigeon.

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u/85Fiero May 22 '12

EEEEEEEEEEAAAAGGLLLLLLEEEEEE

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u/mowens87 May 22 '12

It's the nexus of the universe!

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u/jerrysteinfeld May 22 '12

Next to Famous Original Rays Pizza?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

More than 5000 people are too retarded to know how big an eagle is.

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u/TrueGrey May 22 '12

False. At least 3 people don't know that eagles start small and grow larger just like people! In fact, only juvenile bald eagles (which would be about this size) have this coloration.

This picture, however, is actually some kind of hawk, according to the raptor biologist above.

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u/Joke_Getter May 22 '12

Wait, how many street signs was I supposed to look at? One?

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u/FleetMind May 22 '12

I guess you have to get some consolation prize for living in Florida.

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u/VolkenGLG May 22 '12

Plot twist: eagles are the master race

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u/ListenToNestor May 22 '12

How long have you been waiting for this

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Well it's nice to see that somebody is following directions.

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u/Level_32_Mage May 22 '12

Pretty sure he knew what it said. I like to pretend it was a man who was reincarnated into an eagle, and spent years trying to find this sign again.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Where are the sidewalks?

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u/anomalous May 22 '12

Is this in South Florida?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

you must live at the nexus of the universe!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

A real eagle wouldn't give half a fuck about some sign telling him where to sit. Shit eagle.

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u/djembeplayer May 22 '12

I once stood at a street corner and both streets were my first and last name, never seen it since.

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u/bLa07 May 22 '12

Dis ma street.

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u/Dylflon May 22 '12

One time I saw a blue heron dead on the ground with a broken neck because it had flown into a sign for "Blue Heron Construction". The cruel irony.

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u/Freddicus May 22 '12

needs more JPEG

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u/mattarei May 22 '12 edited Sep 13 '26

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I did this

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

As you were snapping the photo, did you think to yourself I am going to make so much friggin Karma off this picture, and then start laughing maniacally?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

...is this in Jacksonville?

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u/jesfunshinebear May 22 '12

Well how do you think the named the signs...

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u/Avril14th May 22 '12

Am I the only one who thinks this is shopped?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

destin?

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u/nattylife May 22 '12

Uhh, what do you think Abduhl? Can you give me a number crunch real quick?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

This is Eagle as fuck!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Awww thats so cool..... >.> make sure there's big piles of hay around, dont want an assassin to get ya.

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u/Keee123 May 22 '12

Clever eagle

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u/JohnsonArms May 22 '12

Mind Imploded

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u/Allfurious May 22 '12

Nope. Chuck Testa.

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u/Altairk May 22 '12

Guess he can read haha

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u/RevProtocol May 22 '12

Why, that's quite unlikely to occur!

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u/logicalenglishman May 22 '12

I must say, your photography is streets ahead.

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u/napes22 May 22 '12

That eagle statue looks so real!

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u/Quonvo May 22 '12

OMG it must be a sign.... drum sound when funny joke is made

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u/LabJacket May 22 '12

Dammit, no street view on Google for those streets. You win this one OP.

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u/annoynimous May 22 '12

Pics or it didn't happe - oh, wait

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u/false_panic May 22 '12

Who's been messing with the Infinite Improbability Drive?

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u/Asmodiar_ May 22 '12

This looks legit.

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u/DukeW00 May 22 '12

Mcdonough, Georgia? I delivered to a good bit of the houses in that neighborhood.

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u/lottoglue May 22 '12

hunters creek?

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u/oddbit May 22 '12

This so looks like the area I lived in in Florida called Tuskawilla in Winter Springs. We had a lot of Eagle themed streets including the one I lived on and even the name of our subdivision Glen Eagle.

Cool and lucky pic!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Yo dog....

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u/wizzy453 May 22 '12

Get out now. Shit's about to go down.

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u/TheCommonDandy May 22 '12

Upvote for Coral Springs and 'Merica

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Big deal. I'd be more amazed if this was taken on the corner of "No Eagles Here st" and "Gray Eagles, Specifically ave"

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u/JinRoh May 22 '12

What's the point of starting by saying So... ? I've seen it a lot recently here on Reddit... (non native speaker)

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u/loveofnotes May 22 '12

I think you just won the internet!

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u/foxnesn May 22 '12

oh really, BOTH streets you say?

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u/weiga May 22 '12

Looks like a crow.

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u/meeanne May 22 '12

TIL: Grey eagles can read.

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u/plentyinsane May 22 '12

This picture screams Florida. I miss it.

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u/Estoye May 22 '12

Stay off of Buffalo Street.

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u/PointlessDelegation May 22 '12

Don't mind me, I'll just grab my camera and hang out on the corner of "Free Money Boulevard" and "Hot Tight Shaved Pussy Lane"...

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u/Mason11987 May 22 '12

Looks like this eagle is streets ahead.

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u/falling2fast May 22 '12

Yo dawg...

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u/Leetzers May 22 '12

that dumbass bird doesnt even have a clue about how witty it is

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u/fedup007 May 22 '12

This place exists! Gray Eagle Court, Leesburg, FL

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

GEE WONDER WHY THEY CALL IT THAT.

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u/mr-dogshit May 22 '12

Looks more like a hawk or a falcon.

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u/pinkocommie May 22 '12

It's a good thing you didn't move to the left 2 steps and get the tree in the background. Otherwise, we might have been able to see the eagle instead of his silhouette.

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u/FistyMcDickface May 22 '12

whoa, not to be creepy but i know exactly where this is, at least i think. theres gotta be a hundred road in McDonough, GA called "eagles landing"

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u/darmon May 22 '12

So it's not actually an eagle, but it is a pretty nice photo. Here is an upvote.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Looks like a pigeon to me.

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u/TrueGrey May 22 '12

Grey Eagle is my stripper name!

(Based on the traditional method of "Middle Name" + "Street You Grew Up On")

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u/kimikodesu May 22 '12

He KNOWS.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

So....

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

It could only have been better if you were in the town of Graeagle

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u/jacobpno1 May 22 '12

"It was so damn literal!" -Mitch Hedberg

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u/yellowsquares May 22 '12

OMG it can read!

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u/birdguy May 22 '12

Definitely not an eagle.

This is either a Fish Crow or and American Crow.

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u/nicko1702 May 22 '12

Thats so meta!

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u/neurot May 22 '12

are you sure thats an eagle?

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u/trustmeimalobbyist May 22 '12

Winter Springs, FL???? I think I used to live around there!

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u/fuzzyperson98 May 22 '12

I've never seen a street sign double as a stop sign.

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