I remember from our time in Kenya, our many hours spent fishing for bass in Lake Naivasha. At that time we were always accompanied by the fish eagle calls, what I considered one of the great sounds of Africa. Several times we tried to cheat the eagles to come and take one of our dead fishes that we offered to them aiming at catching on film the action of the eagle the moment it took the fish.

We did this, after seeing great pictures in international wildlife magazines, thinking that the pictures were within our reach. We attempted it a few times with our cameras that were not electronic like today and that required that we took our film cartridges for developing after the event. What we found was not impressive! We either had a dead fish floating on the water or a splash, the anterior or posterior half of an eagle but we could never capture the actual sequence.

That is why I am writing this post as, during our visit to Masuma in Hwange National Park, there was a resident fish eagle that attempted to pick pieces of the dead impala as well as remains of dead fish that were floating about in the dam. Remembering my earlier Kenya experience, I decided not to attempt to take pictures to the eagle so, the following sequence was captured by my son that did not have a bad past experience on his shoulders that would impair his ability to press the shutter in a timely fashion