[Rhodes22-list] Bald Eagle/Canada Geese Standoff

[cjlowe at sssnet.com]

I'd just got to my boat and a bald eagle took a dive at a blue heron, that
was on the opposite shore. When the eagle got about twenty feet from the
heron, the heron dove in the water, to live to see another day. The eagle
veered off in search of easier prey. When I was
 in Alaska, a game warden that was giving a presentation on eagles said
that when an eagle picks up prey in its claws, they lock closed. They
have to put the prey on a surface to release the lock on the claws. He
said if a eagle tries to pick up a prey that he can't lift in the water,
both usually die, the eagle drowns and the prey has to drag a dead eagle
around the rest of its short life.




> Great Story Roger - enjoyed the read.
> I’m sharing it with my aviary friends outside da list
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>> On Mar 6, 2021, at 1:35 PM, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
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>> We have a lot of Bald Eagles and Canada Geese up our way on the Bay but
>> I've never seen a confrontation between them. We've seen some
>> magnificent aerial displays in the summer as Bald Eagles and Osprey
>> fight over a fish. And carrion eaters that they are, we've seen Bad
>> Eagles try to bully the Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures out or a
>> roadkill in the field across the street from us after the corn or
>> soybeans are cut in the fall. Didn't get any pictures though.
>>
>> Mary Lou
>> ex R22
>> now Rosborough RF-246  Tara
>> Rock Hall, MD
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>> On 3/6/2021 11:28 AM, Joe Dempsey wrote:
>>> Facinating. Here in VA we've got Bald Eagles flying over the farm and
>>> flocks
>>> of Canadas as well, but never any confrontations. Where are the
>>> pictures,
>>> Roger?
>>>
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