A photographer was out with his family on a winter morning when he spotted the dramatic encounter between the two birds

Now the feathers are really starting to fly in the trade war. A bald eagle was captured on film doing battle with a sickly, bird-flu-riddled Canada goose — in a stunning new viral image that is being called a metaphor for the tariff battle between the United States and our northern neighbor.

A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle between the two birds — the goose held its own.