The day was rainy and the sky was grey when Mark Smith held his camera against the very strong wind and pointed it over the water. He stood in a boat amid the elements on the dangerous Arran Rapids, in British Columbia, to photograph the eagles hunting.
Almost in slow motion, a bald eagle was hovering very strangely above the raging water near Stuart Island where the hake fish are rushed in by the powerful tide during their annual migration in June. Smith, 52, a wildlife photographer from Florida, understood keenly that the bird’s behavior was not normal and what it meant: The eagle was going in for the kill.
