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Well Ken  the eagle must have thought that the males were the best =
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It never dove at the females.
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<br/>On Feb 5, 2016, at 9:22 AM, "
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I never saw Eagles attack loon chicks Donna, seeing
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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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to look around is when you see that. The Eagle concentrates on t=
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and will repeated sky dive at it and make the merganser dive und=
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I never saw the eagle being successful however. It usually gives up a=
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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=
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had been feeding on the white chickens all  winter and the nearl=
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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 on=
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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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#39;Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">It was timely to r=
ead Jim=E2=80=99s report on =E2=80=9C<strong>Eagle Watch Weekend One</stron=
g>=E2=80=9D (<em>sounds like a movie title...American, of course</em>) and =
James=E2=80=99 follow-up comments.  This evening I watched The Nature =
of Things documentary on the Vancouver Bald Eagle population, which is soar=
ing in numbers mainly due to a large landfill and an expanding human popula=
tion (but began a more modest recovery earlier on after the abandonment of =
DDT and changes in the earlier human customs of shooting them as ill-regard=
ed =E2=80=98vermin=E2=80=99, not unlike the history of eagle persecution on=
the east coast).   My point is that their populations are soarin=
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#39;Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Our Annapolis Vall=
ey eagle population is food-supplemented from industrial poultry practices,=
as we are all aware.   What harm is there in that?  It has =
generated tourism dollars, and it gets people out to see nature in the wint=
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#39;Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">It now appears tha=
t the Common loon may be falling under new predation pressures as this larg=
e and expanding NS eagle population finds new places to nest.  They se=
em to be increasingly pushed to less productive areas to nest, such as nutr=
ient-poor lakes in southwest Nova Scotia.