Urban eagles

[scarlettina]

One of the things I'll never get over about living in Seattle is how it exists hand in hand with the local environment--lakes and canals through the city, mountains on every horizon, and native wildlife pretty common. Most days--for years now--I've crossed the Evergreen Point Bridge from Seattle through the University of Washington arboretum,

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[exiledfromtribe]

Ah yes, one of the very (VERY) few things that I miss about working in Bellevue is the birds. I'd see bunches of bald eagles on Lake Washington. Now I have pigeons and seagulls. I'm glad that you like the nature commute too. =)

[kate_schaefer]

Although I am not the Audubon Society, I know that there is a pair of eagles nesting in the arboretum, who have successfully fledged at least one chick. I've never seen more than two eagles at a time when I've crossed that bridge, but in the past two years, I have seen two adults, and an adult and a juvenile.

It's really awesome when there's an eagle perched on the lamppost and a heron on the ugly sculpture.

[scarlettina]

That's what was what today--only it was one on each sculpture in the morning, and just the eagle on a lamppost coming home tonight. They wouldn't be here if we weren't doing something right environmentally. I take it as a good sign.

[shelly_rae]

There's a pair nesting on Greenlake as well and another up in Carkeek Park.
If we watch the ducks when we're walking Greenlake you can tell when the eagle flies over. All the decks turn in the same direction and watch, quietly.

Amazing.

My brother says eagles are "as thick as seagulls at an Ivars" up where he lives but that's Alaska for you.

It's a very cool thing to have a sentinel watching over you.
Anon

[randy_byers]

In The Street-Smart Naturalist, David Williams writes about seeing crows bring their young ones to look at the bald eagles in Woodland Park by Green Lake. He figured they were teaching them, "This is the enemy."

[oldmangrumpus]

When irrationalrobot and I visited Seward Park at night, we were told there had recently been a nesting pair there. And there is a nesting pair almost every year in Discovery Park.

Urban Eagles and Other Wildlife

[ladyjestocost]

We have a pair in West Seattle, out by the Salty's. My best close encounter was on the highway to the west of SeaTac Airport, when one swooped down for roadkill right in front of the car I was in. Luckily, the driver swerved and didn't hit it. They're certainly gorgeous, but I don't think they're very bright as far as birds go.

Of course my closest recent encounter was nose to nose with a raccoon with my front window between us. I was reclining on the chaise, and wondered why the cats were on point...