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drxfish · Aug-19-25 6:42PM

After waffling on whether to go today or tomorrow, I decided to go today with less chance of rain. Got on the water about 8:15am solo. Water looked real nice and green. I made a little run and figured I would just float. It was misting and there was a breeze.

No takers or activity on top. Tried some z-man offerings but the stringy grass stuff was really bad. It took a while to get the skunk off. Finally decided to use a craw and a GOAT and just keep them moving to avoid the grass. Ended up with 5 with the biggest maybe 14 inches. Wind got to be a pain.

This was the highlight. I saw a bunch of Bald Eagles on a shoreline. They were flying and landing with some other birds. I moved a little closer and zoomed in. It was several Eagles working to keep the vultures away so they could eat a fish carcass.

Kind of blurry, but you can see 2 Eagles keeping the vultures' back so another Eagle can eat in the last picture.

Got off the water about 1:30pm

hookup · Aug-19-25 6:53PM

That's pretty bowl

Surprised the eagles joined the vultures in a meal.

drxfish · Aug-19-25 7:57PM

I think they actually stole it. Either that or the vultures were trying to muscle in.

Oubassman · Aug-19-25 8:19PM

Pretty neat with the eagles there

Ernie · Aug-19-25 10:07PM

Nature at it's best. We saw an osprey take a smallie or cat today and then we saw an osprey harassing a eagle.

backtofuturetoyota · Aug-20-25 12:53PM

Very cool! Up NW eagles fly around the dumps by the hundreds. But it's always neat to see how animals engage with each other. I had an osprey come down and almost attack my top water frog a year or two ago.....needless to say it scared the poop out of me! Seagull ok....osprey...hell no!

hookup · Aug-20-25 6:33PM

backtofuturetoyota wrote:
it scared the poop out of me

Slow day of fishing, sitting in the kayak daydreaming while dragging a tube over a rocky bottom when SPLASH. A bald eagle dropped out of the sky and snagged a smallie 10 feet in front of the bow of the yak.

Those are big birds!

Now that was a poop scaring moment too

Bruce · Aug-20-25 7:12PM

When I lived on the lower Potomac a few years ago, I had an eagle bring a fish into my backyard and begin to eat it. Then two black vultures flew in and stood about 10 yards from the eagle. Then one vulture moved to the left of the eagle and one to the right. Then one vulture would move slowly toward the eagle and the fish. and as soon as the vulture got about 5 yards from the eagle, the eagle would quickly move toward the vulture to scare him away, and the other vulture would try to quickly get to the fish while the eagle was pursuing the first vulture. The vultures alternated doing this for about 10 minutes without success and finally flew away and left the eagle to continue his meal. Final score: eagle=1 and vultures=0. It was fun to watch and your pictures reminded me of this incident.

backtofuturetoyota · Aug-21-25 11:44AM

The size of some of these eagles is amazing and having one splash down in front so close would be worthy of a "depends" event. It sounds a little like when the beavers slap their tails, but even crazier.
I have also seen the technique used by the buzzards, but never with an eagle. I always thought how funny it was to watch these smaller birds like blue jays harassing crows and things like that.

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