A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle between the two birds — the goose held its own.
A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle between the two birds — the goose held its own.
Politics aside: I live in PEI and there is an area called Vernon River which has been iced over for the last month except at the Hwy 1 bridge. There is a large flock of Canada geese that have been hanging out in this water area for weeks.
A few weeks back I noticed goose carcasses scattered around. It was a horrorshow. There was one on the hwy. A pile down on the ice. They were everywhere. There were several eagles, a few hawks, and a couple of larger birds I assume were vultures. Looking closer many of the geese were is pretty bad form. Standing, but their heads were on the ice. Some on their sides. Some off on their own way up the river.
It turns out avian flu is taking out a huge section of this flock and the birds of prey are eating them - which will probably result in those birds getting sick. Every day I drive by and there are more dead. Sometimes you see a single goose just standing along side the highway clearly in bad health.
It’s really sad.