Was driving home across the bridge today. A caspian tern ate up with the dumb ass decided to dive bomb a bald eagle. Eagle spun upside down grabed the tern, fliped rightside up, droped the tern let it fall 50 or so feet and hit it again let it fall to the water and hit it from 100 feet up on the water.

Darwin at work...

Bob: That means more salmon smolts make it to the sea ...

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Bob: That means more salmon smolts make it to the sea ...

I watched an eagle in Victoria do the same thing to a crow, but no playing and dropping. The two just melded into one, and it didn't look like the crow was on top.

Shoe on the other foot, speaking of Darwin --

Kayaking on the Columbia I watched a Redtail go after a GBH. Of course the heron was really at a loss in the air, like a fighter plane (hawk) going after a Cargo Transport.

I'm guessing the Heron may have landed too close to the Hawk's nest.

Anyway, the Heron is all out of sorts in the air, trying to dodge and weave -- with no success.

But then he landed on a solid perch. When the hawk came after him standing -- well that long beak and neck are just like a javlin!

Hawk being not at all stupid, and having moved the Heron, decided not to take claws to a spear chucking contest!

Great show!

The other great show was coming around a corner close to shore in the yak, Willappa Bay, Long Island, and two Bald Eagles right on the water, perched. I was 25 feet away! I could see individual feathers in their crests!

First one flew off, across the cove, landed 300 metres out, on the shore. Then the second did the same. So I got to watch both, one at a time.

Reincarnation, and I'm coming back as an eagle. (Probably end up a Buzzzard!)