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William L. Higl
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I live in Everett, Washington. I try to get out and do 10 miles around town at lunch time each day.
One day I was riding along the waterfront and heard a pretty loud screeching sound followed by an
6"-10" object falling in the road. My first thought was that some raptor had attacked a seagull and
what I saw in the road was part of a wing.
I stopped my bike and looked around and saw a seagull harassing a bald eagle. Since both birds were
intact my thoughts turned back to the object in the road. I looked at it trying to figure out what
it was, and then it started flopping around.
Apparently the eagle had picked up a small flounder in one the tide pools and was flying off to
enjoy it's lunch when it was attacked by the seagull. I watched both birds jockey for the fish only
to be run off by passing cars.
I briefly entertained the idea of saving the fish but figured he had been pierced by eagle talons,
dropped from about fifty feet in the air, and the best I would be able to do was through it out onto
the mud flats for some other predator.
I pointed the aerial battle out to another bystander and we observed the scene for a while.
I'm just curious about other odd sights some of my fellow cyclists may have seen in their journeys.
William Higley, Sr. Vision R50
One day I was riding along the waterfront and heard a pretty loud screeching sound followed by an
6"-10" object falling in the road. My first thought was that some raptor had attacked a seagull and
what I saw in the road was part of a wing.
I stopped my bike and looked around and saw a seagull harassing a bald eagle. Since both birds were
intact my thoughts turned back to the object in the road. I looked at it trying to figure out what
it was, and then it started flopping around.
Apparently the eagle had picked up a small flounder in one the tide pools and was flying off to
enjoy it's lunch when it was attacked by the seagull. I watched both birds jockey for the fish only
to be run off by passing cars.
I briefly entertained the idea of saving the fish but figured he had been pierced by eagle talons,
dropped from about fifty feet in the air, and the best I would be able to do was through it out onto
the mud flats for some other predator.
I pointed the aerial battle out to another bystander and we observed the scene for a while.
I'm just curious about other odd sights some of my fellow cyclists may have seen in their journeys.
William Higley, Sr. Vision R50