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Bald eagles and coots
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Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Sat, Jan 7, 12 at 18:54
| No good pics, but I found out what the resident bald eagles in AZ's White Mountains eat in the winter.
Coots. Especially when the cold weather has frozen the ponds so the coots are all bunched up in one small opening. It's an eagle buffet!
Coots can't take off unless they can paddle like mad across some open water, so they are stuck until the ponds thaw a bit, and in the meantime they are sitting ducks (pardon the pun) for the eagles.
There were seven eagles perched across a large pond from me, with several dozen coots on the menu in a small hole in the ice, constantly paddling to keep the hole open. And diving every time an eagle swooped over.
If they freeze into the ice, which does happen, the coyotes get them.
Must suck to be that low on the food chain. |
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| No pics - the eagles were out of range and out of focus. I'll try again next weekend. |
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