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I never saw Eagles attack loon chicks Donna, seeing
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a loon chick is rare,  for me, so that is not to mean they don'=
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just that I've never been in the area where it happened.
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Maybe someday and you'll be the first to know.
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But I've seen on a few times Eagles attacking Common Mergansers.
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Early in spring, when trout fishing is slow and there is lots of time
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to look around is when you see that. The Eagle concentrates on the =
male merganser
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and will repeated sky dive at it and make the merganser dive under =
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I never saw the eagle being successful however. It usually gives up afte=
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a time and flies of but maybe because the show got to close to me.
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Its always the male merganser they attack - I supposed it was because th=
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had been feeding on the white chickens all  winter and the nearly a=
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resembled a chicken. But that was only me!
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I had an interesting experience with a horned owl and a loon chick once
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also but that story will need wait!
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Enjoy the rain and the sleet and the snow and whatever!
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Paul 
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<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">It was timely to read=
Jim=E2=80=99s report on =E2=80=9C<strong>Eagle Watch Weekend One</strong>=
=E2=80=9D (<em>sounds like a movie title...American, of course</em>) and Ja=
mes=E2=80=99 follow-up comments.  This evening I watched The Nature of=
Things documentary on the Vancouver Bald Eagle population, which is soarin=
g in numbers mainly due to a large landfill and an expanding human populati=
on (but began a more modest recovery earlier on after the abandonment of DD=
T and changes in the earlier human customs of shooting them as ill-regarded=
=E2=80=98vermin=E2=80=99, not unlike the history of eagle persecution on t=
he east coast).   My point is that their populations are soaring =
presently due to food supplementation.  </span></p>=20
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<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Our Annapolis Valley =
eagle population is food-supplemented from industrial poultry practices, as=
we are all aware.   What harm is there in that?  It has gen=
erated tourism dollars, and it gets people out to see nature in the wintert=
ime.  All wonderful.</span></p>=20
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<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">It now appears that t=
he Common loon may be falling under new predation pressures as this large a=
nd expanding NS eagle population finds new places to nest.  They seem =
to be increasingly pushed to less productive areas to nest, such as nutrien=
t-poor lakes in southwest Nova Scotia.  (No scientific data to back th=
is up, but it would make a good thesis.) Cottage owners are documenting not=
able increases in eagle sightings, including eye witness accounts of eagles=
attacking loon chicks.  One such story was reported to me again yeste=
rday from a lake near Caledonia.   Still another report came from=
Sandy Bottom Lake last September where an eagle repeatedly attacked a juve=
nile loon.  The young loon was forced to continuously dive to avoid th=
e attacks, but apparently survived.  They stand much less chance when =
they are younger and cannot dive for long periods.  Other loon chicks =
were not as fortunate last year.</span></p>=20
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<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Where is the natu