New York Post   By Chris Perez   May 23, 2018
This hungry fox didn’t know his dinner was “to go.”

Nature photographer Kevin Ebi captured these incredible before-and-after shots of a bald eagle swooping down and snatching up the prey of an unsuspecting red fox. The competing carnivores at one point engaged in a midair tug of war — which ended with the fox back on the ground minus his meal.

Ebi managed to get the confrontation on camera while shooting in the San Juan Island National Historical Park in Washington state.

“There is no question that bald eagles are skilled hunters,” said the 44-year-old fotog. “But they’re also masters of something scientists call kleptoparasitism: the art of stealing food from others.”

Ebi told Caters News Agency that the eagle-vs.-fox battle was “even more impressive” due to the fact that it was “played out more than 20 feet in the air.” He called the bird’s rabbit swipe “an especially dramatic act of thievery.”

“I thought the fox would drop the rabbit, giving the eagle an easy dinner,” Ebi said. “When the fox was back on the ground, my first instinct was to look at it through my lens, capturing images to see if it was injured. I was glad to see that it was OK.”
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