I had the fortune to witness Eagles catch their food on 2 occasions in my life.
As an 11 years old, while holidaying with the family on the Appenines mountains in Italy, I saw an eagle take a lamb and disappear, and the sheperd swear all sorts of revenge...
And while working on the Royal Viking Star as a Wine Steward in 1980, during one of the cruises to glacier bay in Alaska, I saw a bald Eagle swoop down and pull a salmon out of the water. Well if it wasn't a salmon, it was a damn big fish.
Absolutely marvellous.
Now, when I happen to go to some zoo or the other, and see some of them in their aviaries, I feel like shooting them, to put them out of their misery.![]()