That was the least realistic photo I could find. If you want to see nature REALLY in the raw, look up “raptors eating.” But don’t be squeamish!
Thank you for sparing us/me. This is so weird, my eyes both have cataracts (but not so bad I can't read most of the phone book in good light), but I guess I saw what I wanted to see. A nurturing eagle feeding some orphan bird or mouse.
Not a chance!!! Today I see a fish standing on its tail on a fence post being devoured head first by a juvenile? or just plain ugly eagle.
I've watched the eagle cam. Fish usually bother me less than hapless birds and mammals. But when I was a young adult, I liked to go on drives, so we drove a ways up the river and stopped in LeClaire where there was activity boats, docks and fishermen. I watched in horror as a man slit a fish and ripped the skin off alive. It plagued me for days and even now. My father-in-law used to fish and told me he rapped them on the head before he cleaned (and presumably skinned them, never watched him do it). Who knows how much feeling they have?
No sir, I pass on your raptor page. I saw enough of those horrible eagles feeding their young. They do mate for life and the male helps with the eggs and does most of the food gathering while there are young in the nest. So there's good and bad in them from a human pov.
I am squeamish about that sort of thing. I guess alligators and snakes are worse.
I will spare you and other readers the only decent photo I ever took of a juvenile eagle perched on a tree branch (easier when no movement). Birds are hard to catch in flight; it takes some practice and the ability to pan, track, lock in focus and shoot. I get around focus sometimes by setting just under infinity. I think there was some other mode I never used.