2020-04-14 Eagle Watching in Metro Vancouver

            There is a Bald Eagle nesting area in the Ladner township within the city of Delta BC, in turn part of Metro Vancouver British Columbia Canada. The area is rural and a good place to walk while social distancing. So I got in my car and drove down. 

One of the pictures I took, an eagle is carrying something in its beak. It's possible, even likely that it picked up something at the metro landfill (the dump) which is located as the eagle flies, less than a kilometer away. The bird is indeed a noble vulture at least as much as a hunter. The true hunters of the skies are the Golden Eagles. 

Even Benjamin Franklin didn't think much of the Bald Eagle: 

    “For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.

    With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping & robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our country…

    “I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.”

I guess though, the Bald Eagle is a fitting symbol for the current US administration.

Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Delta (show map)

Taken on: April 21, 2020

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