This is a post for Bonnie, in response to hers in which she reveals she’s crazy about buoys, very crazy . . . by her own admission a week ago. Further, Bonnie’s post was in response to Tillerman.
I feel compelled to say I’m equally crazy about gulls, all kinds of gulls including eeeee
gulls . . . er, eagles.
But I don’t like dogs or
snakes.
The second foto comes thanks to Bob McLaren via Allen Baker. Taken in the early 1960s, the fotos shows the house of Dalzelleagle, now McAllister Brothers as seen here and here. Previously, Allen has supplied this foto and others. Please get in touch if you have ideas on how I can locate and photograph any remaining Dalzell trademark eagles. Other vessels with ornamental eagles are Huntington and Pacific. (Use “find” to locate the ornamental eagle reference within those articles. I’m curious about this tradition. )
The third foto shows McKinley Sea (1981, ex-Annabelle V. Roehrig and El Oso Grande II). And the boa, I took the foto on Coney Island after the mermaid parade in 2007.
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March 5, 2011 at 9:05 am
Rick
Did the boa eat the gulls?
The snake was a surprise. Don’t see too many on the beach that size, thank goodness.
March 5, 2011 at 10:47 am
Bonnie
Thanks for the post! I’m so glad to see some of those eagles. My friend Andy at Sebago had told me about those after one of our trips to the Graveyard of Ships, and I’ve been curious to see what they looked like ever since.
March 5, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Mage Bailey
Not an eagle here, but did you see the wrecked Dutch tug on Shipspotter today. Great shots progressing from 2004 on.
March 6, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Bill Miller
I hate snakes. Thank God, it is March and Saint Patrick is underway to drive the snakes from NY and the Sixth Boro.
March 6, 2011 at 6:58 pm
tugster
will st patrick drive snakes from office and all other centers of power too? if so, i’ll celebrate the saint even more heartily . . .
March 6, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Dennis Willard
I found photos of some of the tugs built up in new baltimore in the late 1800′s,and they also had eagles mounted on most of them and there were also a few that had antlers mounted on the wheelhouse . .
i’ll ask around and see what i can find out as i’ve been curious about that too.
March 6, 2011 at 10:00 pm
tugster
antlers mounted on the wheelhouse . . . i’ve never heard o that. i’d love to see pix. it totally makes sense from a totem . . . antlers mounted on the barn pov. in new england i used to see antlers–deer and moose–on garages as well as tuna tail staked up there.
March 6, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Dennis Willard
@ rick . . .
that boa is very fortunate that the gulls didn’t take notice of him.
i’ve seen gulls go after eagles and take there fish away from them up here on my part of the hudson.
they’re very tough birds !