The Eagle has Landed

I know I was in the middle of my LA trip update, but I must take a detour to talk about something different.

Yesterday, while at soccer, I saw and heard the most horrifying thing. At the field, there is an eagles nest. Its fairly obvious, and periodically, you see the eagle sitting there checking out our lovely ladies teams kicking the ball around. He’s a pretty good fan, making little noise and while flying around every once in a while, never flying anywhere near us.

On the other side of the street is a food wholesaler, produce and dry goods mostly. As such, there are a large number of seagulls which hover around the food place. I'm sure they see us over at the field, but thankfully, they have avoiding visiting our area to drop a dump on us or whatever it is seagulls do when they are flying around.

So yesterday, we hear a huge screaming from some seagulls. When we look up, we see the eagle, flying back to its nest, gripping a captured seagull in its talons. Other seagulls are screaming their heads off and somewhat chasing the eagle, but clearly being scared, fly off in the other direction for fear of being the next meal victim.

So for the next 30 minutes, we hear the captured seagull screaming for its life as the eagle has its way. Needless to say, they were not playing cards. Probably the most mortifying thing I've heard in a while. I half debated throwing a rock or something, but realizing that the same eagle could chase us, or worse, I would miss wildly and peg off some kid on the teeter-totter, I thought better.

What a way to go though. Flying around, minding your business, looking for yummy lettuce and tossed out fruit, only to be captured mid-air by some other meaner bird, who takes you home for dinner. Chasing salad to being the salad.

At the same time, most people have difficulty swatting flies. Can you imaging trying to catch another bird in mid air, especially given how well birds turn and change directions. I’d be that eagle flying around chasing only to hit a tree by accident or better yet, flying into an electrical wire and zapping myself.

I’m off KFC for a while I think. Nah, I’ll still eat it.