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Early this afternoon I was scanning the shoreline at Eagle Head Beach in Qu=
een's County. From beside me an adult Bald Eagle chased a large dark bird o=
ut onto the water, forcing it down behind a rocky islet. For two or three m=
inutes nothing happened, then the eagle emerged, dragging a still strugglin=
g cormorant - but swimming, not flying, with such a big bird. It was about =
150m to shore, and the eagle flapped on through the water for several minut=
es, using the avian equivalent of the breast-stroke, until it was able to e=
merge on a rock with the now very dead cormorant, and begin to tear it apar=
t.
I concluded that this was one very hungry eagle - all that effort, swimming=
no less - for a meal as appetizing as a cormorant.
Eric L. Mills
Lower Rose Bay
Lunenburg Co., NS
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<p>Early this afternoon I was scanning the shoreline at Eagle Head Beach in=
Queen's County. From beside me an adult Bald Eagle chased a large dark bir=
d out onto the water, forcing it down behind a rocky islet. For two or thre=
e minutes nothing happened, then
the eagle emerged, dragging a still struggling cormorant - but swimming, n=
ot flying, with such a big bird. It was about 150m to shore, and the eagle =
flapped on through the water for several minutes, using the avian equivalen=
t of the breast-stroke, until it
was able to emerge on a rock with the now very dead cormorant, and begin t=
o tear it apart.
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<p>I concluded that this was one very hungry eagle - all that effort, swimm=
ing no less - for a meal as appetizing as a cormorant.
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<p>Eric L. Mills</p>
<p>Lower Rose Bay</p>
<p>Lunenburg Co., NS<br>
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