Yes. I watched two fighting, in the ocean in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia this past October. One kept trying to drown the other to the point of both at exhaustion. One did swim to shore and made it. The other drowned. Both were "breast stroking."
Dan Crook
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From: Upper Valley Birders [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Karen Jackson [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 3:01 PM
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Subject: [UVB] "swimming" eagle

A friend sent me this link of an eagle doing a breast stroke - to those more knowledgable birders, can it be for real?
http://www.youtube.com/embed/87xNpOYOlQ4?rel=0


Karen Jackson

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