A bald eagle attacked a seagull in flight, swooping down on it. But something went wrong and eagle and gull tumbled into the sound.
Eagles are not water birds; unlike ducks or geese, they have neither webbed feet nor oiled feathers. This one quickly got too waterlogged to fly.
So it swam, using its wings as paddles, the gull still clutched in its talons (that's the gull peeking out from behind the eagle's tail):
At first we weren't sure if it knew what it was doing, but it soon became obvious that it was making a beeline for the nearest shore. Which it reached safely, still (as far as we could tell; it was a long way off by then) carrying the gull.
Nature never ceases to amaze.
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