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bald eagle 1.jpg
This beautiful adult was not healthy enough to be released back into the wild. It is cared for at the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre in Errington, BC
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Eating on the Fly.jpg
Many of the bald eagles, both adult and juveniles, get ambushed for the fish they have just caught - so often that they no longer bring their catch back to a roosting site, to eat at their leisure. Instead, they have learned to start eating their fish as soon as they begin their short flight back to their roost - literally 'eating on the fly'.
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Aerial Mayhem.jpg
Up to 200 juvenile and adult bald eagles were feeding on the fish lying dead on the water's surface. The fish had just been violently pulled up to the water's surface, 200 feet above their ocean bottom habitats. This was the result of twice daily, 16 knot tidal currents, on the British Columbia coast.
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Rolled over for an Ambush.jpg
This adult bald eagle had just caught a small Hake bottom feeding fish) and was immediatelyly ambushed by a 2nd eagle - from above. As part of it's defence strategy, the eagle dropped the fish, and rolled onto its back in mid air, with talons ready to strike the attacker.
This type of harrassment happened on a regular basis during this unique feeding opportunity on the west coast of British Columbia.
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Fight for the Fish .jpg
this type of battle wa a moment by moment occurence during the 2 hour window when fish would be thrust to the opcvean surface, twice each day.
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