Red Deer Attacked By Eagles.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 6

Red Deer Attacked By Eagles.

Caitaiv Thoai vs Fraskr, of tho Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, writes to tho " Field '' :— ' The following occurrence, though not unprecedented m the Plighlands. may possibly interest some of your readers. On March 22, as my father's Stroneldirg keeper, John Rose, was walking over his ground, accompanied by LordLovat's keeper of the neighbouring moor — Killin — they saw five red deor leave a small piece of birch wood and stand looking about them for a little. Throe golden eagles appeared, and immediately attacked one of them — a hind. She immediately bolted at full speed, followed by the eagles, and, after going about three hundred yards, one ot the eagles drew himself together, hovered, pounced, and fixed on her head, holding on for about live of her stride^ when she fell head over heels, and thus ridded herself of tho fiiht eagle for the time. This occurred about a dozen times, the eagles coming to the attack in turns over ground hard with frosb. In about ten minutes tho hind seemed exhausted, and then the keepers were able to get up to her, finding that tho poor beast was quite stupefied, her left hind-leg broken, her tongue hanging ssix inches out, and her mouth open. After smoking a pipe over it, they decided between them that it would be a pity to kill her, as her leg would shortly mend ,• so they drove her slowly before them into a birch-wood, where the eagles, which were still hovering over them, could not well attack her again; and there they left her.'

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