Pearson College Marine Science

While walking down to the floating building yesterday at about 8:30 am, I saw a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) sitting on the rocks just below the director’s lawn. Initially the eagle flew away into the trees but shortly after it returned to the rock where a gull was exploring.

The gull was scared away.

The bald eagle then went to retrieve a cormorant carcass from the rock to the left…

But before the eagle could start feeding another bald eagle landed on the rock.

Eventually the second eagle left and the first eagle feasted.

The images below show all that remained of the eagle’s meal:

Tags: bald eagle, Double crested cormorant, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Pedder Bay, Phalacrocorax auritus

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