Spread eagle

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Alistair

 

This Bald Eagle was hunting a duck. This was not a good day to be that duck.

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4 Responses to Spread eagle

  2. Bob Ritchie says:
    February 13, 2018 at 11:44 am

    When I lived on the remote coast of BC we would see the Eagles in the winter. I guess times were tough so they would continually dive at a duck until it had no reserve air left and could not submerge anymore and then the Eagle would have lunch. This was in the winter but did not see this in the summer.
    Bob

    • Alistair says:
      February 13, 2018 at 12:23 pm

      Bob, in this case, the eagle tried that, but failed. The duck was close to a dock with air pockets under it and so hid out there until the eagle gave up: duck 1, eagle 0.

  3. Woody Meristem says:
    February 13, 2018 at 4:11 pm

    Great photo. The first bald eagle I ever saw took a duck from the water in a backwater of Chesapeake Bay.

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