Sunday morning 19 October, 2014
This morning on my way to the barn I spied a large presence
sitting on a fence post at the back of the horse paddock, surveying the land
round about.
At first, and from a distance, I thought it must be an
unusually big cat or some other sizeable animal with a white head and
tail. On retrieving the binoculars, I
saw the noble white bust of a magnificent eagle with his white leggings below.
The chestnut thoroughbred, always curious, stood a few feet
away, mightily intrigued. He backed
away, then re-approached, uncertain of his visitor. As I watched, the eagle flew down to the
ground and alighted right before the horse, not four feet away, as if to say, “You
want to look at me? Here I am!” For a time they engaged in a seeming stand-off,
no combat, rather a kind of show and tell.
Had it become a contest, I have no doubt the bird would have won.
Eventually the eagle had enough and took flight, soon joined
by his mate. Together the pair soared
high overhead against a clear blue sky beneath a few white puffs of cloud,
circling, riding the currents. What a
glorious, joyful sight they made!-- majesty in the air, winging eastward toward
the woods and the creek on a sunny Sunday morning.
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