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.

Anyone who has had an encounter with a Canada goose knows they won’t be messed with easily. An American bald eagle learned that lesson in a clash with a goose late last month. The battle has made headlines — symbolic of the Canada-U.

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

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.

Mervyn Sequeira was out with his family when he saw the eagle walking towards the goose on a frozen lake in an attempt to prey on it.

Mervyn Sequeira, a 74-year-old photographer based out of Ontario, captured a series of incredible photos of this bird battle last month. Battle might not be the right ward for it, since the Canada goose might have been too busy fighting something internally to really worry about the external threat.