A pair of eagles dining on fresh caught salmon while a seagull waits for scraps
Posted June 21, 2022 at 10:43 pm by San Juan Update
Photo credit: Brad Pillow
Photo captured below the bluff at the Cape.
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I enjoy Pillow’s photos and appreciate his long lens and patience standards but cringe a bit at anthropomorphic phrases and inaccurate natural history. This photo of two adult Balds on a salmon is almost certainly the result of the fish dying or being severely traumatized in some way to wash ashore. Eagles do not capture a living fish anywhere near the size and weight of this salmon. They would be incapable of getting off the water or killing it. Bald Eagles are well-known to be predominantly carrion eaters (as opposed to much more spectacular Golden Eagles). In a stream crammed with spawned out salmon they can drag nearly comatose dying fish ashore in shallow water. They often prefer well rotted flesh to scavenge.
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