[BITList] Eagle Attack: Lake Tapps, Washington

[John Feltham]

Subject: Eagle Attack: Lake Tapps, Washington




Here's a once-in-a-lifetime event captured on film.







   The little duck watches as the Eagle speeds straight at him at  
about 40 mph.   (760 mm effective Focal Length)




   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. (1,040 mm  
effective Focal Length)




  A second Eagle joins the attack! The duck kept diving "just in  
time", so the Eagles began to dive into the water after him! (1,150 mm  
effective Focal Length)




  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.) (900 mm effective Focal Length)



  A terrible miscalculation! The luckiest shot of my life catches this  
100 mph head-on collision between two Bald Eagles. (1,320 mm effective  
Focal Length)



  One Eagle stayed aloft and flew away, but the other lies motionless  
in a crumpled heap. The lucky duck survived to live another day. (486  
mm effective Focal Length)



   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!  (620 mm effective Focal Length)




The bedraggled Eagle circled me once, and 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 feathers, it seemed to me that this beleaguered  
Eagle symbolized America in its current trials. (1,200 mm effective  
Focal Length)




    My half-hour wait was rewarded with this marvelous sight.  He flew  
away, almost as good as new.

    May America recover as well. (1,400 mm effective Focal Length)








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