Yes, reading these anecdotes shows that Bald Eagles are certainly an apt creature to be our national symbol: Large, predatory and beautiful, yet prefers to bully smaller less-powerful beings around, thereby being considered a pest and a thug by those same smaller, less-powerful creatures. An apt symbol indeed.
Brett A. Wolfe gismybabe at yahoo.com Seattle, WA
Rob Saecker <rsaecker at thurston.com> wrote:Tim,

last summer at Frye Cove Pk. (Thurston Co.) I saw a red-tail with
prey head out across Eld Inlet. A baldy gave chase, and closed
quickly on the hawk. The red-tail didn't put up any resistance, it
just dropped it's prey, which the eagle snatched out of the air. I
don't think territory has anything to do with it; baldies are
notorious freeloaders. There have been lots of reports of baldies
robbing ospreys, and I seem to remember someone on Tweeters reporting
a baldy robbing a peregrine up on the Skagit.

At 9:41 PM -0800 2/15/03, Tim O'Brien wrote:

>


> Would this be an example of territorial behavior on the part of the
>eagles or just the eagle being the dominant species? Just wondering
>if anyone else has seen something like this before.

--
Rob Saecker
Olympia
rsaecker at thurston.com


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