Tuesday 1 December 2015

Ducks Chase Eagle

We've often seen both golden and sea eagles being chased by smaller birds, but they're usually things like buzzards, crows or gulls. This picture caught a sea eagle, which was flying low along the Ormsaigbeg shore, apparently being chased by ducks.

Sadly it's too distant a shot for the type of duck to be identified, but the most common duck around here at the moment is wigeon.
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  1. Stewart7 December 2015 at 16:25

    The ducks do look like wigeon, on the males you can just make out the white wing flashes, I cant think what else they would be? Wildfowl wouldnt mob a bird of prey, they will have been flushed as it flew past and are about to over take it by the look of things !

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  2. V of Norwich26 March 2017 at 23:51

    Here in central Minnesota I often see smaller birds chasing the local Cooper's and Redtail hawks, but I was astonished this afternoon in central Minnesota to see a pair of mallards unmistakeably veer in flight and begin chasing a low-flying bald eagle. I would never have believed it.

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