“Tranquillity base here. The Eagle has landed.”

-Neil Armstrong

We normally watch the eagles enviously from our lowly positions admiring their beauty and strength as they soar so far above us, symbolically as well as physically. Despite how we objectify them, Eagles are creatures like all others and are not above scavenging a free meal from the side of the road. This beauty seems to have found the remnants of someone’s chicken dinner and is happily polishing it off despite the protests of the neighbourhood crows. Urban wildlife, despite not fitting into our stereotype of nature is as natural and capable as their country cousins. My apologies for the quality of the images but I didn’t creep to close so he wouldn’t lose out on his meal but as you can see he is not proud or foolish. He, like all eagles and humans, is a lowly scavenger as well as a magnificent hunter and there is nothing wrong with that because both result in survival.

© TS Ni hUiginn