Eagle feeding question

I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure they’re as good and probably better at fishing than an osprey.

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No way

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Agreed

ETA: Here's an awesome osprey video LINK

Eagles eat mostly dead or dying fish and will eat carrion on occasion.

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but they’re as good at fishing as an osprey.

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No

I seen one grab a dead hooded merganser in front of the duck blind once. It can have em, we didn’t want to claim the sawbill anyway.

I watched two osprey fighting a bald eagle by the Chesapeake bay. The eagle backed himself against a big pine tree as the osprey swooped all around him. They were the aggessors.

Thanks for the video. I watched an Osprey nail a fish from way up Here at the lake I live on. Suicide dive, came up with the fish, back to the nest.
My wife watched an eagle try to nail a grebe but the little sucker kept diving before the eagle could get there.

Bald eagles are BUMS of the bird of pray world they steal fish from others birds of pray so many smaller BOP they just snatch their catches from others they are master thieves. An amazing Bird of Pray but they are bums I love watching all of them hunt and fish
From the Audubon Society
“carrion is usually their primary source of red meat. In other words, Bald Eagles are a little picky—but mostly they’re just lazy. That’s why they tend to hang around garbage dumps (a great place to take your friends birding).”
“ So, just to review, here’s a simplified take on a Bald Eagle’s tasting preferences:

Anything they don’t have to chase.
Fish.
Birds.
Everything else, including Mr. Whiskers.

I have seen them fish a bass pond before. Saw one drop a 3-4 .lb bass once in it. Ospreys seem like they are more efficient.

Seems as though the Bald Eagle is more of an opportunistic hunter. I’ve seen them on gut piles in Northern New Mexico and the Decorah Eagles built their nest next to a fish hatchery. Seems the Osprey are more attuned to fish hunting.