Ever seen an eagle swim?

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swimming eagle of baton rouge - YouTube

Terry

[buglinbilly]

Terry I have seen both hawks and eagles swim on several different occasions, but only had a camera to document it one time. And that was way back in 2006. I was using a Panasonic FZ-30 camera and it was at a time when I was just beginning to use a camera for wildlife, so I will apologize for the poor quality photos I am going to post. Hopefully my present day photos are better than these or I had better find something else to do with my time.

This first photo is a young bald eagle landing on a submerged log.



It sat there for a moment and then just jumped off the log into the water and swam about 60 yards to a floating slashing. These are a couple photos I took while it was swimming.







It got up on the floating slash, sat for a few moments and then flew off. Here's a photo as he starts to to take off, after his swim.



Again sorry for the poor photos.

Have a good one. BB

[Dylan8i]

both the video and pics are amazing, i never though of a bird doing that before.

it's probably one of those things that is just more impressive seeing in person to.

[Shyanni]

Pretty amazing, bunglinbilly! I've heard of eagles swimming before, but only when it had snagged a fish too heavy to lift -- never when it had the option of flying.

[paulnj]

I have seen only one swim trying to pick a coot from the water's edge. but I did see a peregrine falcon swim 40-50 feet with a pintail it killed.