This morning I saw a Bald Eagle land on a low perch at the top of the bluff
near Pt. Whitehorn (between Cherry Point and Birch Bay in Whatcom Co.). It
often sits high up in another tree a few meters away. It was quickly
apparent that it was feeding on something, but I didn't see any feathers
from a bird, they often eat seagulls here, and I couldn't figure out the
strange shape with my binoculars. I got my scope on the bird and saw that
it was ripping apart a very large Dungeness Crab. The crab was still alive
and feebly waving it's big claws to no effect.



The time was near low tide, but not a really low tide. the crabs sometimes
walk across a sandbar that would have been very shallow, I wonder if this is
how the eagle was able to see and grab the crab.



Good birding,

Ed

Ed Swan

Nature writer and guide

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