While my observations of Bald Eagles are limited, I was able to watch one hunting a flock of coots at Camp Dennison gravel pits last winter. The flock was scattered over the water until the eagle showed up, then they clustered tightly together and moved as a single unit. As the eagle swooped over them, the coots dived in a rippling pattern, as if they were a crowd of fans doing the "wave" at a football game. Over and over again, the eagle attacked, and the group of coots continued to dive and resurface, all the while "shuffling" across the surface to a more sheltered area of the pits. I never saw the eagle connect with a coot, but there were subsequent reports on the Birding in Cincinnati web site of an eagle feeding on coots in later days. Kathi Hutton Felicity (SW OH) ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]