thanks Cat. It was rather traumatic actually. I think I'd have been okay, if they'd actually been able to land the goose and eat it but they couldn't. And it died
Dan says that someone will eventually eat it. I hope so.The relevance of eating something that has been killed is a human emotion ingrained into us from childhood to justify killing. "It is okay we/they had to eat". It is actually an irrelevant fact other than our emotion. The prey is dead whether it is eaten or not. Also what qualifies it as a quality eating? All organic matter is ultimately consumed by insects, bacteria, mold, and probably little fish and invertebrates in this case. In this country we are ingrained, through school curriculum, with the idea native Americans being correct in their hunting because they allegedly always used the whole animal and regretted it's death. In modern society a hunter who shoots an animal and puts it on his wall is often viewed as sick but if he eats that animal it is okay. Again the only relevance is to our emotion. The impact to the animal, the environment, and the economy are all the same. Even if that goose did not get eaten by a recognizable cute or majestic(by human standards) animal, it fed worms and invertebrates. The young eagle learned a lesson in hunting, and it practiced it's hunting which it relies on for survival. If you place the goose in it's proper place in the food chain it is a prey animal put here in great numbers to die and feed other creatures. As I view it, it was a win win win situation for all involved, oh except for the goose:p. This rambling message has been brought to you by Zane's sense of reality, carry on.
But you did it well this time...
I loved the video, great images.
