[Rhodes22-list] Bald Eagles!

[Mark Kaynor]

Not all it's quacked up to be, eh, Rummy?

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Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Bald Eagles!


> Not cool if your a duck.
>
> Rummy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Pihlaja" <cen09402@centurytel.net>
> To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:36 PM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Bald Eagles!
>
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I was sitting here at my computer working on some internet job searches
when
> I looked out my window just in time to see a mature male bald eagle land
in
> the tree right above my dock!  I couldn't believe my eyes.  I've lived on
> Sanford Lake since 1977 & have never seen a bald eagle here until now.  I
> jumped up to go get my 35 mm camera.  I got back just in time to see a
> female bald eagle join this male (a nesting pair perhaps?!?).  The female
> eagle didn't land in the tree.  Instead, she began diving on a flock of
> about 12 bufflehead ducks, which were in the water feeding on the sandbar
> about 100 yards off our beach.  The male eagle joined her & you should
have
> seen the ducks scatter in all directions!  My 35 mm camera takes several
> seconds to boot up from a cold start.  By the time the camera was ready to
> shoot, the action had moved off down the lake out of range.  I went out on
> our deck with my binoculars & saw both eagles snare ducks in their talons
in
> mid flight!  They both flew off with a duck in their talons in same
> southerly direction down the lake!  It was totally cool.
>
> Roger Pihlaja
> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
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