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Coast Photo Gallery - Oregon Coast Wildlife and Tide Pools
Oregon Coast Birding - Birds of Prey
During the warm weather months on the Oregon Coast, the offshore rocks and seaside cliffs welcome back the nesting seabirds coming ashore every year as part of their annual breeding season. As the amazing display of nature unfolds into full motion and the seabirds hatch their chicks during this time, the stage is set for another side of nature’s survival of the fittest. Raptors stalk these nesting grounds feeding on the weak and young, and bald eagles play a major role in this seaside drama. The mere presence of a bald eagle flying near the nesting grounds elicits an intense reaction within the bird rookeries inciting warning cries to all members that danger is lurking ahead. Often, gulls and even crows will swarm together in flight trying to force the unwanted predators from their nesting territories where their defenseless chicks lay unprotected. While it may appear cruel, observing bald eagles hunting in this way still supports the overall needs of the food chain.
Photo of a bald eagle in flight over the tree tops located in South Lincoln County, one of the birds of prey species commonly found hunting along the coastline feeding on an assorted diet consisting of small fishes, large birds and nesting chicks, small animals and mammals, and sometimes even carrion.
Photo of an adult pair of bald eagles surveying their territory from a wind-swept tree snag as part of their daily activities foraging for food where sometimes they will capture their own prey and in other cases, will steal captured prey from other raptors on similar hunting expeditions including ospreys and peregrine falcons.
Photo of an adult pair of bald eagles positioned in a wind-torn pine tree located at the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, their mere presence in the area alone striking fear into the nesting seabirds and other animals living nearby inciting warning cries and a call to battle drawing groups of gulls swarming into the flight path of the eagles trying to push these predators off course and away from the defenseless chicks.
Photo of a gull flying defiantly towards a pair of bald eagles attempting to force the unwanted predators away from the nearby nesting grounds, a common event occurring during the spring and summer months when the raptors hunt along the coastline preying on a variety of smaller birds including common murres and a multitude of nesting seabird chicks all living closely together in their associated rookery sites.


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