Life is cool #112
Mar. 28th, 2004 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI was out breaking my back in the garden and I looked up to see five bald eagles circling over my neighborhood. Five. Bald eagles.
They hung around long enough for me to watch for a while, dust off, creep into the house, and get my binoculars. There were only two of them by then, but it was a male and female pair, and the male had what looked to be about a four-foot wingspan. He's a big boy. They just circled around and around, floating in the blue sky against a faint daytime quarter-moon, and then left eventually, followed by screeing seagulls.
This is my neighborhood. A view of the Olympic mountains just up the street, a greenbelt with eagles and red-tailed hawks, a spectacular beach and park ten minutes' walk from my house. I live in the coolest place. :-D
They hung around long enough for me to watch for a while, dust off, creep into the house, and get my binoculars. There were only two of them by then, but it was a male and female pair, and the male had what looked to be about a four-foot wingspan. He's a big boy. They just circled around and around, floating in the blue sky against a faint daytime quarter-moon, and then left eventually, followed by screeing seagulls.
This is my neighborhood. A view of the Olympic mountains just up the street, a greenbelt with eagles and red-tailed hawks, a spectacular beach and park ten minutes' walk from my house. I live in the coolest place. :-D
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Date: 2004-03-28 04:04 pm (UTC)Wow. :-)
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Date: 2004-03-28 04:55 pm (UTC)This is my neighborhood. A view of the Olympic mountains just up the street, a greenbelt with eagles and red-tailed hawks, a spectacular beach and park ten minutes' walk from my house.
*makes note*: If in Seattle area, make sure to stop by Gwyn's :)
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Date: 2004-03-29 12:45 am (UTC)Now I'm really counting down the months till I get to Seattle!
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Date: 2004-03-29 06:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-29 07:30 am (UTC)This is my neighborhood. A view of the Olympic mountains just up the street, a greenbelt with eagles and red-tailed hawks, a spectacular beach and park ten minutes' walk from my house. I live in the coolest place. :-D
I hate you ;-) It'll be 90 degrees here today. Sigh...
I love your Stitch icon! I'm a Stitch maniac and have been looking for prospective icon pix, yet haven't found a lot of usable source material. Can you point me towards any?
dunno if you'll ever check this long ago thread, but...
Date: 2004-05-11 05:46 pm (UTC)Raptor sightings are always cool, and it doesn't really get old even if you work with raptors, as I frequently do.
Fun fact with which to amaze your friends: the female of the pair would be the bigger bird that you saw. Raptors are reverse sexually dimorphic (most of 'em, anyway), with females up to a third again larger than their mates. Cool, eh?
Tracy