The new Eagle Point lookout at SBWR is aptly named as the resident sea eagles do soar by during the day. A good time to see them soaring is during the evening hours between 5pm to 7pm. Sometimes, the eagles do show off their acrobatic skills when they swoop down to catch fish at the water surface.
Exposed sandbars do present an easy source of stranded fish.
The clip shows an eagle swooping down to the sandbar and sitting beside a white object (stranded fish) on the sand(or maybe the fish was dropped by another smaller raptor like the brahminy kite circling close by). However, it decides not to grab it but flies off before spotting a live fish at the water surface. It glides down and grabs the live fish but fails to sufficiently secure it resulting in it dropping the fish.
It flies off before returning and grabbing the stranded fish from the sandbar. It is almost immediately chased by a brahminy kite which had been soaring in the area too. The brahminy had ignored the stranded fish earlier. Perhaps the fish had been too big for the brahminy to carry off but nevertheless, it did its best to chase the eagle. The eagle managed to get away with its dinner despite the harassment by the brahminy. Raptors frequently challenge each other when it comes to food and try to cause the other to drop it.
The first part of the clip was shot in slowmo with audio dubbed in from the forest nearby. The remainder of the clip shares the audio recorded at the scene with several big glass camera motor drives excitedly whirring and clicking.
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