Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: BrianS on September 16, 2019, 07:20:58 am
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I was fishing and watched a bald eagle attempt to catch a duck. I was able to video it (not the best video but it all happened very fast). Here is the link to the video. The eagle is at around 6:20 in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipKT2xI_4k0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipKT2xI_4k0)
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Nice video Brian. Feels like I spent the morning fishing.
I've always wondered if the Eagles around here took any ducks or geese.
Bjrogg
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They can try!
Good vid brian!
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I was hunting Ducks in the mid 70's and as I walked up to a lake a Bald Eagle took off from the bay I was working my way to screaming in anger. He circled a couple times then left. When I got to the edge of the water I looked out and there was a log sticking out of the water about 50 yards out from shore and on top of that log was a half eaten Duck so yes they do take down Ducks
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I wonder if they take Canadian Geese? I know geese don't like swans.
Bjrogg
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I've watched them eating a house cat.
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They are very efficient at catching ducks, especially if they hunt as a pair. I have a series of pictures of a pair hunting a Merganser. I'll see if I can find them. They take turns diving at the duck to keep it under water. They exhaust the duck and grab it.
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Hope you don't mind Brian. I had to find and resize these. I picked the best that I could. In the third picture you can just see the ripples where the duck ducked in the lower right hand corner.
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She didn't catch the actual grab but here it is swimming to an island
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And success
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DC,
Wow! Great pictures! Thanks for posting them
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Those are great pictures DC.
Bjrogg
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(A) Wow - That's cool ! Bob
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Those are some fantastic pictures DC. Make mine look like they were taken from my phone through my dirty tractor windows while I was brush hogging my trail. Oh yah, that's because it's what I was doing. I have a pair that hang around this big dead cottonwood. There is a reason they say eagle eyes. They don't miss anything. They most always have a eye on me.
Bjrogg