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Collision of Eagles
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March 15, 2009, 05:18:56 PM »
This was sent to me via e-mail - I don't know who took them but this is GREAT.
A once-in-a-lifetime event captured on film...
The fellow sitting on the tailgate of his pickup truck never realized the show he was missing.
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Re: Collision of Eagles
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March 15, 2009, 05:20:07 PM »
The little duck watches as the Eagle speeds straight at him at about 40 mph.
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March 15, 2009, 05:21:30 PM »
Don't can click on the pictures to enlarge them...
With perfect timing, the duck always dove and escaped with a mighty splash! Then he'd pop to the surface as soon as
the Eagle flew past. This was repeated over and over for several minutes. I worried the poor duck would tire and that
would be the end of him.
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March 15, 2009, 05:22:31 PM »
A second Eagle joins the attack! The duck kept diving "just in time", so the Eagles began to dive into the water after him!
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March 15, 2009, 05:23:37 PM »
After several minutes the Eagles got frustrated and began to attack each other... They soon began to dive vertically,
level out, and attack head-on in a good old-fashioned game of high-speed "Chicken". Sometimes they banked away
from each other at the last possible second. Other times they'd climb vertically and tear into each other while falling
back toward the water. (The duck catches his breath at the right side of this picture.)
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Re: Collision of Eagles
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March 15, 2009, 05:24:35 PM »
A terrible miscalculation! The luckiest shot of my life catches this 100 mph head-on collision between two Bald Eagles.
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March 15, 2009, 05:25:37 PM »
One Eagle stayed aloft and flew away, but the other lies motionless in a crumpled heap.
The lucky duck survived to live another day.
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March 15, 2009, 05:26:31 PM »
It's sad to watch an Eagle drown. He wiggled, flapped and struggled mostly underwater. He finally got his head
above water and with great difficulty managed to get airborne. To my astonishment, he flew straight toward me,
and it was the most wretched and unstable bird flight I've ever seen!
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March 15, 2009, 05:27:33 PM »
The bedraggled Eagle circled me once - then lit atop a nearby fir tree. He had a six-foot wingspread and looked mighty angry. I was concerned that I might be his next target, but he was so exhausted he just stared at me. Then I wondered if he would topple to the ground. As he tried to dry his feathers, it seemed to me that this beleaguered Eagle symbolized America in its current trials.
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March 15, 2009, 05:28:28 PM »
My half-hour wait was rewarded with this marvelous sight. He flew away, almost good as new.. May America recover as well.
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