Eagles, Vultures and Owls at the Castle of Guttenberg

[owlsoup4]

i loved the video, the birds were beautiful and i wish i was there! next time take me!

[BattlefieldDoktor]

Thank you! It is really an awesome place with interesting birds and the good thing is they don't keep the birds just to make money in a show. This station shall be popular to grow the population of these birds in some areas again.

[fehquig]

Excellent birds...

[BattlefieldDoktor]

thank you :o) the birds are really beautiful

[fehquig]

You did a great job capturing them...

[kalacaw]

Raptors are my favorites. I could watch them all day. Thanks for putting this vid up BFD. :)

[BattlefieldDoktor]

you're welcome :o)

Weren't raptors dangerous dinosaurs?

[kalacaw]

Yes, but the name is also used for present-day birds of prey. I'm just too lazy to type "birds of prey." :-D

[BattlefieldDoktor]

ah cool, I didn't know ;o) I always learn something ;o) This is the cool thing about YouTube as it also helps me to improve my English

[kalacaw]

Yeah, but it isn't doing a damned thing to help me learn German, Herr BattlefieldDoktor. :-D

[BattlefieldDoktor]

hehehe, ja, da hast du allerdings recht, Frau kalacaw :P

[kalacaw]

Ich habe immer Recht! Well, not always. Sometimes. :-D

[BattlefieldDoktor]

LOL ... nicht immer ... aber immer öfter :-P

[kalacaw]

Danke!  I think. LOL!!!

[caseyjolalala]

very nice

[BattlefieldDoktor]

thank you

[caseyjolalala]

welcome

[nazi8per]

Very nice video doc! Loved the shots you got of the birds :)

I remember this one time where i was on the coast of norway, not far away from the biggest island in norway(Frøya), me and a friend of mine went out on a private boattrip and saw a huge eagle with a wingspan of nearly 3 meters i think.

That's a memory that will stay in my mind for a long time.

Greets from norway doc!

[BattlefieldDoktor]

wow ... an awesome experience to see such a big eagle in the free nature ... envying you

[YTuserPA]

I DID enjoy that! Thank You :)

Love seeing other countries, love castles, and birds of prey are fascinating. The music was cool and went really well with the video too.

[BattlefieldDoktor]

Thank you very much! But I also must say the castles in England also looks great! The music is of Oliver Gerke ... he made some great songs ... some are too hard for me but this is also one of my favourit: Silver Tears

[BattlefieldDoktor]

thank you very much for your visit

[wickedBABZ]

you got some really good shots, nirds actually kind of scare me but I liked this... I guess it scares me more so when there is like hundreds of them... owls are pretty though

[BattlefieldDoktor]

there aren't hundreds of them ;o) I missed only two birds in the video. So you can count them ;o) Owls are really pretty

[wickedBABZ]

haha I typoed... nirds??? birds is what I meant...

those kinds of birds are usually loners for the most part i'm pretty sure but if they ever did get together and try to kill us all it would be like my worst nightmare... eeeek!

[BattlefieldDoktor]

lol, I knew what you meant :-P

eeek, don't have such bad nightmares ;o)

[cputb1]

Interesting. Some really cool shots in there BFD. And the birds, they all speak German huh?

[BattlefieldDoktor]

hehe, guess some speak Eaglish :-P

[cputb1]

Touché

[MelodyElize]

Awesome footage, thank you so much for sharing. It's great to see a place where they are being taken care of, and fed, for their own survival as a species. I loved seeing them in flight, being protected, trained to survive and hunt, and set absolutely free..........

[BattlefieldDoktor]

Thank you Melody ... it is really awesome they do it like this ... growing up with care and later setting free where they still have food and can have a healthy life.

[Sis363]

It breaks my heart so much to see such beautiful birds locked up for a crime they didn't commit. Birds have wings because they fly. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to have the yerning to fly but I couldn't because I was tied down against my will and have no rights or to be able to speak.We need to stop using animals for our pleasure.

Sis.

[BattlefieldDoktor]

Sorry, but even if it looks like a prison for you but it isn't. These birds are breeded at this place and not stolen from the nature for the show. The show is a flight training - it includes the hunt for the food. When the time is right they are getting freed to a place where the nature is still good for them

[BattlefieldDoktor]

We human are responsible to their very limited space and it becomes always less ... lots of these birds have less chances to survive in the wildness than in the prison. We are responsible to poisoning their food. This place breeds the birds - 126 birds grew up there and believe me, there aren't so many birds at the show. They are finding a new place and they're born there.

[Sis363]

I'm so glad to hear that, I'm just getting so tired of animals being used for the entertainment of people. Most people don't even give it a second thought that animals are a thinking being and also have feelings.

It's so obvious they show joy, sadness, fear

just as we do. But they can't speak. I live in the USA and I've never seen a free bald eagle (Our National bird)We Americans take things for granted and take ,take until there's no more I'm ashamed to say.

Sis.

[BattlefieldDoktor]

Hey Sis, I put this video as a response to another one of this place. You can see the training when the eagle has to catch the food in the air. It is their training and I am happy the birds later will go to the nature at a place where no human can disturb them - hopefully for a long time

[tinotrivino]

der assgeier ist frei? :-o ahhaha.-D

[BattlefieldDoktor]

ja, aber sie sind so weit trainiert zurück zu kommen, weil sie wissen da gibts Futter. Finde Geier irgendwie interessant. Wie hat dir die Eule das Leben gerettet? Oder ist das der Spitzname für ne Freundin? :-P

[tinotrivino]

ahhaahah der war gut nein enein:-D ne euele hat mir das lebengerettet ich verlief mich im wald (nein nicht gebrueder grimm :-p) und da sah ichneeule derbin ich halt hinter her gelaufen es war schon fast dunkel echt heftig :-p uebrigens wir haben hier aasgeier die fliegen frei :-D

[BattlefieldDoktor]

Servus Tino! Hier soll es früher auch Aasgeier gegeben haben, aber dadurch daß Tierkadaver nicht lang liegen bleiben so haben die hier kaum noch Futter. Das mit der Eule klingt interessant, sei froh daß es raus geschafft hast und auch in die richtige Richtung ;o)

[tinotrivino]

das war im lither wald in elmshorn :-d ich war damals 7 oder 8 es war laternen fest ;-) lol

[BattlefieldDoktor]

Laterne, Laterne, brenne aus mein Licht, brenne aus mein Licht, aber nur meine liebe Laterne nicht ;o) Das einzige Lied der Kindheit das ich noch auswendig kann ;o)

Sei froh zurück gefunden zu haben!

[tinotrivino]

und was ist mit: habe ne tante aus marokko wenn sie kommt :D hab ne oma die faehrt im huenrstall motorrad :-D vnoden blauenbergenkommen wir :-) weiss du viel sternleinstehen? :-)

[BattlefieldDoktor]

also das erste kenne ich glaub nicht, der Rest sagt mir noch was ;o)

[tinotrivino]

hab ne tante aus marrokko wenn sie kommt, (3 mal singen) dann: und sie kommt auf 2 kamelen wenn sie komtm hip hop haha usw :D

[tinotrivino]

mir hat mal ne euele das lebengerettet... very good video its good thatyou make now longer videos :-D by the way verygood editing... at minute 03:00 this "eule" i dont knwo the englihsword is awesome...

[BattlefieldDoktor]

Eule=owl :-P ... yeah, this owl with the "ears" (actually it aren't ears but looking like cat ears) is really awesome and it loved to look at my digicam

[drschnaggels]

Man these birds were so cool, i loved everyone of them! Especially the owel that looked like a pokemon at 3:06.

Thanks for sharing.

[BattlefieldDoktor]

the owl at 3:06 was really awesome ... it always looked about me ... no matter to where I moved ... it loved to watch into of the camera ... The eyes of owls are also very interesting as they have a colorful iris.

[mieses2pieces]

Very cool video Sven! There were some very beautiful birds and some very ugly birds there, but very graceful. It would have been cool watching those birds flying so close to some people's heads and seeing their reactions as the birds flew over.

[BattlefieldDoktor]

hehehe, I heard the screams of some people there especially when the vultures were flying over their heads, hehe.

[13thDimension]

wow cOOL!

[BattlefieldDoktor]

great you liked it ... these big birds are really impressive

[ralfonzo83]

das ist so furchtbar DEUTSCH!! ^^

[BattlefieldDoktor]

ROFL ... joah, irgendwie schon ;o)

[highheadjester]

wow that was really cool!! I would love to been in the crowd with those birds flying over you head!! That would have kicked ass!! ~HHJ~ :)

[BattlefieldDoktor]

hehehe, some of my colleagues on the trip were scared when the vultures flied very close over their head, hehe ;o)

[Gemm73]

Faved this as well!!!  What beautiful scenery. If I ever come to Germany, I'd love to go see owls and have a beer with ya!

[BattlefieldDoktor]

you're welcome and let's have a beer party ;o) LOL ... ok, I better enjoy a beer than let it run down very fast ;o)

[Gemm73]

OWLS!! Yes!!! Thank you, BFD, for posting this.

[BattlefieldDoktor]

hehe, I knew you would like to see it ;o)

[Tinkerlove13]

5 Stars!

Wow what Beautiful Birds!

And so wonderful to see some are trained to come back so that they get to fly!

That was what I most regret about having my birds, that they never got to use their God given wings their whole life with me. They had their own room but it wasn't like being outdoors.

[BattlefieldDoktor]

The big eagle owl at 3:45 is flying with a line as one week before it didn't fly back ... haha. But you can't hear it when it flies, really awesome and this eagle owl is really huge.

[Flowdidow]

eeeeeeagle^^ *me,...trying to fly*

[BattlefieldDoktor]

hehe, I hope you won't try this airborne without a parachute ;o)

[Flowdidow]

hmm jea well... i wouldn't be so sure about that

[drschnaggels]

jetpacks!

[mbpearce76]

They are BIG, you would not want one of them pecking at ya.:)

[BattlefieldDoktor]

hehehe, yeah, this could hurt ;o)

[zenhill]

Gotta love Germany's rich history. Those birds of prey are awesome man, thanks for makin the vid. By the way I have a question and I'm almost a bit embaressed to ask, but how many of those birds are actually native to Germany?

[BattlefieldDoktor]

This is a good question ... I know for sure the big eagle owl at 3:45 and the brown eagle at the end are native - but very very very seldom!