[Rhodes22-list] Bald Eagles!

[Steve]

Excellent Roger.
I've seen them snag fish right out of the water.  
Steve

--- Roger Pihlaja <cen09402@centurytel.net> wrote:
> 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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