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<\/p>\nSometimes I swear eagles don’t like to get their feet wet.<\/p>\n
These aren’t great photos but I think they’re interesting, even funny, and even though they’re older shots I’ve never posted them before so I thought they were worth a look-see.<\/p>\n
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There was a tiny perch sticking out of the shallow water at Farmington Bay\u00a0that eagles liked to at least attempt to land on. If memory serves it was a curved, waterlogged piece of driftwood.\u00a0But there wasn’t enough of it sticking out of the water to\u00a0get two of those huge feet on it\u00a0easily, especially during the landing process. So this eagle landed precariously\u00a0on one foot while it was holding the other one up as if it didn’t want to get it wet. Here the left foot is just beginning to touch the perch.<\/p>\n
I don’t\u00a0remember what happened immediately after I took this shot because it’s the only one of this bird I saved but just to prove this wasn’t a one-time deal…<\/p>\n
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very soon\u00a0after the first eagle vacated the perch another one took its place and did\u00a0the same thing – landed on one foot while trying to keep the other one out of the water. This photo was taken so soon after the previous one it’s very possible that this eagle was displacing the bird in the previous photo in an act of dominance. I can’t remember…<\/p>\n
It’s only a minor and possibly even meaningless behavior but I still get a kick out of it.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n