I have seen videos of bald eagles who have caught a large heavy fish swimming with their wings like that.
Donna Scott Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2017, at 9:31 AM, "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: A friend who is biking through the Cascade Mountains sent this query: We saw the strangest thing - a quite large bird was swimming in the water with it's large wings, doing a stroke that looked much like the butterfly - both wings flapping up out of the water in sync with each other. We asked the ranger what was going on. He was puzzled. Doug wondered if it might not have been an eagle, either injured or perhaps caught on something, or maybe w/ fish that was tangled in something. Other ideas, my bird loving friends? Sorry we didn't get a pic - we watched quite a while but were slow with the camera. But that pic of the river is where it was, just imagine a large flapping bird in there - dark grey, with white head, and very large wing span. Colleen Richards -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- ____________________________________________________________ Surgeon Reveals 3 Foods That Doctors Consider "Death Foods" 3 Harmful Foods <http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3142/5939518fbc0f9518f51d4st02duc>http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3142/5939518fbc0f9518f51d4st02duc [SponsoredBy Content.Ad] -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
