Originally Posted by
pharasz
Do you have Osprey's where you live? We have a lot of those in Florida. Perhaps one dropped his catch. I once saw an Osprey carrying a fish so large it was struggling to gain the altitude it needed to reach its nest.
I've seen bald eagles dive on ospreys with fish to make them drop their catch. Sometimes the eagle will catch the fish in the air as it falls, and sometimes they won't even try. I think this is a territorial thing more than it's about who gets that one fish.