Other neighborhood eagles......

Just returned from coffee at the Carillon Point Starbucks, and as we drove home on Lake Washington Blvd a pair of eagles circled overhead. I think these might be the eagles we observe from time to time at Heritage Park in Kirkland, but they are almost certainly not Ethel and Ernest. It would be interesting to learn just how many bald eagles reside nearby. We see them hovering over our house in the summer sometimes, usually being chased by some frantic crows, desperate to keep the eggs or the babies in their nests from becoming an eagle snack. It is kind of sad to see the poor crows valiantly flapping their wings, attacking in tag teams as one pair wears out from the effort and another pair takes up the fight, while the eagles simply soar. They seem not to have to move their wings at all, and it becomes apparent that it is a waiting game for them. They will outlast the poor crows and when the fight ends in crow exhaustion the eagles will almost certainly get their treat and move on. That's nature. And the crows do the same thing to smaller birds.....how many times we've seen a pair of crows raid the house finch's nest of eggs, or pluck a baby junco out of a nest the parents have tried to hide on the ground in our greenery. Survival of the fittest, and of the most powerful.