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February 05, 2010

AMAZING EAGLE STORY

This post is a email I received a few days ago. I planned to post it just on my other blog... http://seasonsadventures.blogspot.com but for those of you that haven't been there I will post it here on Mistaya's blog. It is quite the amazing photo story of 2 beautiful eagles.
Notice the gentleman sitting on the tailgate of the pickup in the top of the first photo. He has no idea what an amazing act of Nature he is missing right before his eyes!
This American Bald Eagle in the above photo has spotted a small duck on the river and is heading for him...
The little duck watches as the Eagle speeds straight at him at about 40 mph.

With perfect timing, the duck always dove and escaped with a mighty splash! Then he'd pop to the surface as soon as the Eagle flew past. This was repeated over and over for several minutes. I worried the poor duck would tire and that would be the end of him.

A second Eagle joins the attack! You can see his magnificent white tail spread to it's full glory near the top of the photo. The duck kept diving "just in time", so the Eagles began to dive into the water after him!

After several minutes the Eagles got frustrated and began to attack each other. They soon began to dive vertically, level out, and attack head-on in a good old-fashioned game of high-speed "Chicken". Sometimes they banked away from each other at the last possible second. Other times they'd climb vertically and tear into each other while falling back toward the water. (The duck catches his breath at the right side of this picture.)

A terrible miscalculation! The luckiest shot of my life catches this 100 mph head-on collision between two Bald Eagles.

One Eagle stayed aloft and flew away, but the other lies motionless in a crumpled heap. The lucky duck survived to live another day.

It's sad to watch an Eagle drown. He wiggled, flapped and struggled mostly underwater. He finally got his head above water and with great difficulty managed to get airborne. To my astonishment, he flew straight toward me, and it was the most wretched and unstable bird flight I've ever seen!

The bedraggled Eagle circled me once - then lit atop a nearby fir tree. He had a six-foot wingspread and looked mighty angry. I was concerned that I might be his next target, but he was so exhausted he just stared at me. Then I wondered if he would topple to the ground as he tried to dry his feather.

My half-hour wait was rewarded with this marvelous sight. He flew away, almost good as new.
I am sorry that I do not know who the aurthor or photographer of this email is. But it is one of the most amazing email I have seen in a very long time.

5 comments:

  1. That is an amazing story and the pictures are too.
    Thanks for sharing with us...we didn't know you had another blog we'll check it out.
    Madi and Mom

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  2. Mistaya and M.O.M., Wow! What a great post! And amazing story. Thanks so much for sharing. Have a wonderful weekend. Give Mistaya a kiss from us. Woof Woof. Much Love.

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  3. I thought you had taken the pictures!!!

    They are great!

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  4. Wonderful story and pictures, thanks for sharing.

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  5. Wow, what an rare moment in nature captured by a lucky photographer. This must have been amazing to watch. Thanks for sharing.

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