There was no way a bald eagle in Maine was letting its tasty meal of roadkill skunk get away, as the huge bird rode the skunk’s carcass like a snowboard down a snowy slope.
Alison McKellar was driving near her home in Camden, Maine, when she caught sight of a bald eagle jealously standing on and clinging to a skunk’s carcass by the roadside. She pulled over and caught video of the huge raptor turning its meal into a gruesome snowboard.
Shortly before the encounter, a driver going to other way flashed his headlights at McKellar, so she knew something was going on up ahead, but didn’t expect to see a bald eagle.
“I see there’s an eagle flopping around on the road,” she told Cowboy State Daily. “At first, I thought it was injured. Then I realized it had a skunk — that was probably roadkill — that it was trying to drag off the road.”
Join the conversation as a VIP Member