March 4th now on a few of these. They seemed to really favor these Coots. The Coots however seem to be really good at ducking under the water and shooting up somewhere else. But I again got the impression that when the eagle decides it wants one, it can just go into a bigger group and grab any of them.

These are again extreme crops around 100%.

It's nuts how big that makes the eagle look, which they are I guess.

March 5th on this one. This got harder to watch again, but like the others it was way out there and not easy to see well. This one and another seemed to be drowning the snow geese that couldn't fly or didn't fly away with the rest. He was sitting there on it like that for quite a bit and I don't think it was him trying to grab anything. All you could see in the water out there, other than a few mallards, were several left behind snow geese all isolated. They had no chance besides maybe being a very lucky exception as the eagles had enough others.

Same day somewhere else on the lake. This was at the south end and this one just got a Coot.

It is amazing though, you won't see any eagles anywhere in the trees or on the lake, but the second an eagle gets something they come out of the woodwork to try and take it from him. The one that got it took off and dropped it back in the water. It's in the water on the right between those two.

It did not take long for an adult to come in and snatch it up.

The adult bald eagle that just snatched it up wouldn't keep it for long either.

Now another younger eagle has it.

Not a lot left. I think that adult eagle on the left here is the one I have pics of in the other eagle section with this, the close up ones in the tree as he eats then dives off.

March 11th now. About 30 eagles had two small piles of Coots surrounded. I didn't get the feeling the Coots could leave if they wanted. An eagle would decide it wanted one and go in and get one. Then the other eagles would chase it down. There were always a couple eagles that stayed and seemed to be keeping the Coots there. It has to be horrible for the Coots, as this was an entire day deal. I saw them snatch out at least 4 of them while I was there watching.

Fighting over it and dropping it.

Nothing caught it, but they'd all soon be diving after it. It usually looked a lot like a soccer game as fast as it would switch between birds. Rather comical at times. Many times they'd catch things in flight.

An eagle on the left in the air has one. They'd just come in from the right side, hover over slowly, then dip down and 75% of the time they'd have one.

If we're reborn I hope I'm not a Coot.

It appears the eagles are highly wasteful. There are dead geese all over the place in there. The ones that have something eaten from them often not much is gone. Many have nothing eaten from them. I just never understood that part. They have these dead ones all over the place, yet they'll chase each other forever and a day trying to get part of something. As easy as they can take those Coots when they are grouped up like that, I also don't get why they put the effort they do into chasing another eagle down.