<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Alan, I’m glad to hear that coots actually have a brain in those little heads! I once saw an eagle fly over a big (>100) spread-out flock of coots on Lake Washington and had them all amazingly rapidly assemble into a single long line. Not sure what the strategy was there, but it was obvious and interesting.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 23, 2024, at 1:28 PM, pan via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family:arial; font-size:13px;" class=""><div class="">Tweets,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I, too, have seen eagles hunting coots and other diving birds on Lake Washington. A few times, though, I've seen the prey outfox the eagles at Magnuson Park. When an eagle was working a coot flock, the coots would move under the swim/dive dock on short supports off shore, and mill in the middle until the eagle gave up and danger passed. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alan Grenon</div><div class="">Seattle</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">panmail AT mailfence period com</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Sent with <a href="https://mailfence.com" class="">https://mailfence.com</a> <br class="">Secure and private email<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tweeters mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br class="">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>