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Offline BrianS

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Bald Eagle
« on: September 16, 2019, 07:20:58 am »
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

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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2019, 11:50:02 am »
Nice video Brian. Feels like I spent the morning fishing.

I've always wondered if the Eagles around here took any ducks or geese.
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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2019, 12:15:00 pm »
They can try!

Good vid brian!
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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2019, 01:56:06 pm »
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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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2019, 05:56:12 pm »
I wonder if they take Canadian Geese? I know geese don't like swans.
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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2019, 06:54:03 am »
I've watched them eating a house cat.
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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2019, 11:01:39 am »
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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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2019, 11:53:50 am »
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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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2019, 11:56:59 am »
She didn't catch the actual grab but here it is swimming to an island

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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2019, 11:58:03 am »
And success

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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2019, 09:36:55 am »
DC,
Wow! Great pictures! Thanks for posting them

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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2019, 10:14:52 am »
Those are great pictures DC.
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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2019, 02:14:50 am »
 (A) Wow - That's cool ! Bob
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Re: Bald Eagle
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2019, 06:51:55 am »
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.
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