This could also have been called ‘The Eagle and the Octopus 2’ as it is a direct prequel to the image in the original article by that name. This is the younger eagle referred to in that post, but as you can see by his plumage he is probably just coming in to his fifth summer and hitting the young adult phase of his life cycle. He had certainly been enjoying his fill of the cephalopod before heading to the trees and deferring the prized snack to the older bird. As for the ‘polpo’, Italian for octopus – we suspected at the time it may have been caught up in the traps of a local crab boat and discarded when they got it to the surface.