Window over Washington:
Eagles, Ospreys, Thunderbirds, and a strange helicopter-hawk dream
vol 2 issue 19
Greetings,
More unusual flight patterns to report. This time a bald eagle. The high rise apartment building where I live and work is, as the crow flies, about three miles from the Potomac. Occasionally, I ride or walk to a cove there where I often spot a pair of eagles fishing the river or just doing other eagle things, but it’s unusual to have them fly so far in. Or, it used to be.
Lately, there is one that appears every few weeks. She seems to like calling out to make sure I see her. I figure it’s a female because it’s rather large, and with raptors, generally the lady birds are the bigger birds. I would take her picture and share it with you, but for all the birding I do, photographing them is not a skill I have ever bothered to invest in, although why I have not, I really don’t know.
I like to think this particular eagle is deliberately trying to capture my attention because for the third time now, it is as she is just above my window that she lets out a piercing, skirl…
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