{"id":8061,"date":"2025-03-09T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T20:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/?p=8061"},"modified":"2025-03-09T16:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T20:46:24","slug":"eagle-catching-shad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/eagle-catching-shad\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Catching Shad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following images were shot this morning at the lower loch raven dam. I almost missed it – the eagle I had been watching seemed to have been waiting for me to leave, but I ran back into position barely in time when I saw the action!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see the fish pretty easily through the water, the water is very low at the lower dam – easy pickings for the eagles :-) I believe they are hickory shad… dead ones all over (see last image – ewww).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A jealous onlooker …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lots of eagles around the lower dam in loch raven. I got over 60 images, here are 12 of them :-)<\/p>\n

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