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Lunenburg&nbsp;Co.,&nbsp;Nova& --=_ceecf315f3f11c5a88e34e2d21e87dfb Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 This might be more common than we think. A couple of years ago in Samsonville, Rich. Co. several of us watched an eagle hover over the water and repeatedly swoop down, chasing a cormorant. Each time the cormorant surfaced the eagle would swoop. When the cormorant was finally exhausted, the eagle grabbed it and, like Eric said, swam it to shore. Billy On 19 Feb 2017 20:20, Eric Mills wrote: > 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 bird out onto the water, forcing it down behind a rocky islet. For two or three minutes nothing happened, then the eagle emerged, dragging a still struggling 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 minutes, using the avian equivalent of the breast-stroke, until it was able to emerge on a rock with the now very dead cormorant, and begin to tear it apart. > > 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 --=_ceecf315f3f11c5a88e34e2d21e87dfb Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><body> <p>This might be more common than we think. A couple of years ago in = Samsonville, Rich. Co. several of us watched an eagle hover over the water = and repeatedly swoop down, chasing a cormorant. Each time the cormora= nt surfaced the eagle would swoop. When the cormorant was finally exhausted= , the eagle grabbed it and, like Eric said, swam it to shore.</p> <p>Billy</p> <p>On 19 Feb 2017 20:20, Eric Mills wrote:</p> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p= x solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignore= d --><!-- meta ignored --> <div id=3D"divtagdefaultwrapper" style=3D"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; = font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir=3D"ltr"> <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 strugg= ling cormorant - but swimming, not flying, with such a big bird. It was abo= ut 150m to shore, and the eagle flapped on through the water for several mi= nutes, using the avian equivalent of the breast-stroke, until it was able t= o emerge on a rock with the now very dead cormorant, and begin to tear it a= part. </p> <p> </p> <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. </p> <p> </p> <p>Eric L. Mills</p> <p>Lower Rose Bay</p> <p>Lunenburg Co., NS</p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <div> </div> </body></html> --=_ceecf315f3f11c5a88e34e2d21e87dfb--
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