{"id":138882,"date":"2014-12-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=7b8c327199718ea36982eef05fc4b7b2"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:49:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:49:45","slug":"bald-eagle-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/bald-eagle-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald Eagle Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"

I walking around the marina in Sanford a little while ago, and I had a pretty memorable experience.<\/p>\n

As I walked by a tree, a young Cooper’s Hawk with a Rock Pigeon flushed and flew up into a different tree.<\/p>\n

That was surprising and cool enough, but a Bald Eagle must have seen all that happened, and it flew over to investigate the tree with the Cooper’s Hawk.<\/p>\n

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Bald Eagle Flying Away with a Stolen Rock Pigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bald EagleIt was so close to me that this is a full frame image. With its eyes on the Cooper’s Hawk it didn’t seem to care about me one bit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It then descended into the tree, and the Cooper’s Hawk freaked out, flew into another tree, and dropped its prey. This photo is not as sharp as I would like, but I believe this is a full frame image, or nearly so. The action took place so close to me, I didn’t even have time to back up.<\/p>\n

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Cooper’s Hawk Freaking out and heading into another tree with a Rock Pigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bald Eagle with Rock PigeonYou can make out a little bit of the bird at the bottom of the rame, but unfortunately, I didn’t have much choice but to cut off the eagle’s tail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The eagle lost no time in thieving the Rock Pigeon. I tried to backup to give it more space, but once I moved it flew off.<\/p>\n

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Bald Eagle in Flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I walking around the marina in Sanford a little while ago, and I had a pretty memorable experience. As I walked by a tree, a young Cooper’s Hawk with a Rock Pigeon flushed and flew up into a different tree. That was surprising and cool enough, but a Bald Eagle must have seen all that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2148421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[683,2066,2465],"class_list":["post-138882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-bald-eagle","tag-rock-pigeon","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}