Awesome rare photo.
While I was at Eastwood Tuesday I witnessed a very interesting event. Across Harshman Road, and quite a distance away, I saw Jim or Cindy flying in a northerly direction. Ahead of the eagle flew a duck frantically trying to be somewhere else, fast. Bald Eagles will prey on ducks but they normally don’t catch them in midair but rather snatch them from the water’s surface. Even though the cloudy skies made the lighting poor and the eagle was a good distance away, I zoomed in and snapped a few pictures of the pursuit. When I looked at the pictures I saw that the eagle had a passenger on board. Smaller birds, like the Eastern Kingbird and the Red Winged Blackbird can be very territorial and aggressively confrontational with larger birds and
will sometimes land on a flying eagle’s back and surf across the sky. The Kingbirds had returned to Eastwood last week and the Red Wing Blackbirds are also plentiful…
View original post 24 more words
shaneknick 