Wildlife in the city
December 8th, 2006 | Published in general
Seeing Kent’s story about a Sleeping Owl reminded me of a similar experience I had a couple of months back. I was riding a pedestrian overpass over highway 94 here, and the overpass bridge has a chainlink fence along the side and top. I was pulling my daughter on the trail-a-bike, and at the end of the bridge something caught my eye. I stopped and we looked back to see an juvenile bald eagle perched on the fence, less than a foot over where my head had just passed. This is over one of the busiest stretches of road in the Twin Cities. I’ve seen hawks gliding along the river bluffs and i know there are eagles around, but this is the closest i’ve ever been to one. The bird was completely nonplussed at our 2 minutes of quiet gawking, and was still there when we continued on our errand.
The attached photo is NOT the eagle from that story (no camera with me that day), but Fred, an eagle that hangs out near the fishing pier in Homer, Alaska. Photo taken June 2006.