Terrapins are not uncommon on the bald eagle's menu.

A few years back I had occasion to visit some bald eagle nests. One 
of them held an empty terrapin shell and there were fragments of 
another shell on the ground. I doubt bald eagles are terribly 
particular about eating anything as long as there is meat on it.

Melanie Lynch
Annapolis, MD  21403


>While canoeing in the salt marsh on the Crisfield CBC, we stopped at 
>an unused duck blind.   At the blind, we found 3 diamondback 
>terrapin shells, one in the blind and 2 next to it.  They were fresh 
>enough to still have some odor about them.  There may have been more 
>- these were just conspicuous.  Later we remembered that there had 
>been eagles sitting on the blind earlier in the day, and began to 
>wonder if the 2 items were connected.  Do eagles hunt terrapins? 
>While they are tasty, there isn't much there and it hardly seems 
>worth their while.
>
>Paul Bystrak
>
>3709 Devonshire Drive
>Salisbury, MD 21804
>


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