Posted on 01/21/2019 5:35:34 AM PST by C19fan
A bald eagle ended up stealing a fisherman's first catch and it was all caught on camera. The fresh fish was lying on the ice in Windham, Maine, while the angler continued to fish. The sharp-eyed eagle had other ideas - and seeing the freshly caught meal ready for the taking, it was hard to resist.
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Fast-food run!
Taking something that’s offered to you is now stealing? Wow!
Looks staged.
Eagle is tagged. Fish is conveniently placed for the eagle to see and steal? Nope, for the simple taking.
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of eagle videos on YT and elsewhere on the internet which are more interesting than the video posted.
“Don’t feed the wildlife!”
Why was his camera set up there in the 1st place if he didnt want the fish taken!
Article states fisherman saw the eagle circling and placed the fish next to his Go-Pro so there was not any deception only sensationalism by the DM in its title.
And still a good shot of the tagged Eagle, which many are.
Read the story
It was funny. The bird looked like a high school kid shoplifting at a 7-11, trying to act nonchalant, like “nope, no shoplifters here”.
I agree. Plus camera is rolling to capture the event. Phoney but nice that they fed the eagle.
“He din’t do nuffin’!”
This one's my favorite:
Exactly. I think that fish was put there just for the eagle to come and get. This is all a put on.
Good for fisherman to help out the eagle but bad for him to openly lie for the attention.
While fishing at a local lake an angler down the shore left his spot to go to his car. He was no more than 100 feet from his spot when an Osprey swooped down and grabbed his stringer along with 4 nice trout.
That’s the bird’s name, Dint Doonuffin.
I was at Hampton Beach, NH a few years back and observed a young girl walking back from the pizza shop with a fresh slice on a paper plate. A SEAGULL swooped down and grabbed that slice right off her plate and kept going. GOD I love nature!
Anyone who lives near Bald Eagles can have this type of opportunity to film them like this. An eagle has great eye sight. If you live near a river with eagles you can throw a dead fish in to the water and an eagle will swoop down and snatch it. Have some great video of that. You can also place it on land and do the same... on the water we go up river from the eagle nest and let the fish float on top while we get our video. Staged but fun to watch every time.
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