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> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --Boundary_(ID_jCRHNTqfw/YqADt7eHfplA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Bald eagles are primarily scavengers rather than active "hunters" for living prey in the winter, except when foraging for spawning fishes like tomcod in the gravelly lower tidal reaches of various rivers -- they also hunt living mergansers in those rivers at certain stages of the tide. Of course, in summer bald eagles are excellent fishers and probably get most of their food that way. Another method of getting food in winter involves thievery, i.e. chasing other eagles or other birds for whatever morsels they might be persuaded to give up under harassment; in summer such harassment is often toward our provincial bird, the osprey, and in some instances they force parent ospreys to catch many more fish to feed their youngsters than would otherwise be the case. In autumn and early winter eagles scavenge/hunt for wounded or dead waterfowl that human hunters and their dogs did not retrieve. Perhaps everyone on the list knows all of this? Cheers from Jim ---------- From: Peter dewit <peterdewit@gmail.com> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:05:27 -0400 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: [NatureNS] Eagles at Look Off /w photos Observed four eagles at Look Off north of Canning between 1pm and 1:30pm today, March 2nd. They flew in pairs over the farms, ocassionaly breaking off from it's partner only to join up again shortly. They flew out of sight before I witnessed them catch any prey, assuming they were hunting. http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4110/eagle1ok7.jpg http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/3169/eagle2vr9.jpg I'd estimate about 2km away in the last two photos, blurry http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4899/eagle3zh5.jpg http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/4381/eagle4be8.jpg - Peter --Boundary_(ID_jCRHNTqfw/YqADt7eHfplA) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>FW: [NatureNS] Eagles at Look Off /w photos</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Bald eagles are primarily scavengers rather than active "hunters" for living prey in the winter, except when foraging for spawning fishes like tomcod in the gravelly lower tidal reaches of various rivers -- they also hunt living mergansers in those rivers at certain stages of the tide. Of course, in summer bald eagles are excellent fishers and probably get most of their food that way. Another method of getting food in winter involves thievery, i.e. chasing other eagles or other birds for whatever morsels they might be persuaded to give up under harassment; in summer such harassment is often toward our provincial bird, the osprey, and in some instances they force parent ospreys to catch many more fish to feed their youngsters than would otherwise be the case. In autumn and early winter eagles scavenge/hunt for wounded or dead waterfowl that human hunters and their dogs did not retrieve. Perhaps everyone on the list knows all of this?<BR> <BR> Cheers from Jim<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>Peter dewit <peterdewit@gmail.com><BR> <B>Reply-To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Date: </B>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:05:27 -0400<BR> <B>To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Subject: </B>[NatureNS] Eagles at Look Off /w photos<BR> <BR> Observed four eagles at Look Off north of Canning between 1pm and 1:30pm today, March 2nd. They flew in pairs over the farms, ocassionaly breaking off from it's partner only to join up again shortly. They flew out of sight before I witnessed them catch any prey, assuming they were hunting. <BR> <BR> <BR> http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4110/eagle1ok7.jpg<BR> <BR> http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/3169/eagle2vr9.jpg<BR> <BR> <BR> I'd estimate about 2km away in the last two photos, blurry<BR> <BR> http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4899/eagle3zh5.jpg<BR> <BR> http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/4381/eagle4be8.jpg<BR> <BR> - Peter<BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> --Boundary_(ID_jCRHNTqfw/YqADt7eHfplA)--
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