Bald Eagle

[BrianS]

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

[bjrogg]

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

[Deerhunter21]

They can try!

Good vid brian!

[Marc St Louis]

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

[bjrogg]

I wonder if they take Canadian Geese? I know geese don't like swans.
Bjrogg

[mullet]

I've watched them eating a house cat.

[DC]

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.

[DC]

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.

[DC]

She didn't catch the actual grab but here it is swimming to an island

[DC]

And success

[BrianS]

DC,
Wow! Great pictures! Thanks for posting them

[bjrogg]

Those are great pictures DC.
Bjrogg

[chamookman]

  Wow - That's cool ! Bob

[bjrogg]

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