Ever seen an eagle swim?
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When I was in collage, I used to do a lot of solo camping up in the far north of Wisconsin and Minnesota. One day I was sitting by a lake trying to catch a fish and I was watching an eagle circle overhead when the eagle power dived into the water. It was stunning. It must have hit the water at a minimum of 30 mph. It was so unexpected that for a brief second I could not understand why that eagle had just committed suicide. Then the eagle broke the surface and powered up out of the water with a fish in its talons. It was a magnificent thing to witness.
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Yes, we've seen this before on the Delaware River up above the water gap. We were kayaking and could see something white that seemed to be fluttering in the water. I said "what has a white head that would be swimming like that?" My son said "there are also white tail feathers so it could be an eagle". I didn't believe it until it emerged on shore with an eel in its grip (just like the video) and then it flew off.
