Jordan Lake. Bald Eagle Mom Godiva catches a fish with her feet then bends double and transfers the fish to her beak for the dash back to the safety of the trees on the shoreline.
bald eagle fishing
TagBald Eagle Fishing At Sunrise
Jordan Lake: Doc Ellen‘s Natural Minute. Here is both a Bald Eagle Fishing and a wonderful sunrise. Enjoy! Take care, stay safe. Be well!
Spectacular Fail!
Jordan Lake: Spectacular Fail! You are seeing the second of three attempts that Mom Godiva the bald eagle made early this morning on a huge striped bass. She had snagged it the first pass and had to drop it. This is her second attempt. Godiva came around, set her talons, and the impact apparently was so great – her weight of about 12 pounds against the approximate 2 pounds of the fish – that the interaction flipped the fish out behind her. Do not feel too badly for Mom Godiva. She came back around the third time and actually got a very good grip on the huge bass and took it back to the shoreline. There she ate her hard earned breakfast.
Bald Eagle Fishing Hover
Jordan Lake: Bald eagles can and do sometimes hover over a fish, especially when the fish is in the shallows. This female bald eagle did a powerful hover and then snatched her fish and headed for a tree, fish tucked tightly under her tail.
Jordan Lake, Bald Eagle Nest report: Captain’s Nest
This morning Captain Doug and I watched Captain Mom swoop past and catch a small fish. You can see the fish in the water just in front of her approaching talons in the first photo. Like the great mom she is, she promptly took it to the nest for her chicks.
Caught It!
Jordan Lake Dam, Haw River: I love the plumage patterns and colors on the 3-year-old bald eagles. This eagle had been watching the river flowing inside the riprap for some time. A flash of a fish caught her eye and almost instantly she had caught her dinner. What a beautiful display of her fishing abilities!
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