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The crows' strategy is interesting when they're on the offensive (I had seen it before but couldn't document it): they take turn harassing the eagle, so it gets tired and leaves. And I was joking about the "high ground" but it actually seems important, a lot of their maneuvers (both the crows and the eagle) consist in trying to be above the other one.

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Mr Crow joined the fight!

For months I've been wanting to take a decent picture of him flying so that you can see his damaged wings that I always talk about. Well, here they are. But as you can see, he can fly fine, and he is healthy enough to attack eagles (he's much healthier this year than last year, flying upwards and for a long distance is the only things he struggles with, here he already had the high ground (high sky?) and he didn't fly far.

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The black kite was flying lower and lower which allowed me those cool shots (although I'm bummed the second one here is blurry, it was so unexpected that I forgot to change the settings of my camera).
I later noticed what it may have been interested in: some ducks hanging out in the estuary? Maybe? I'll never know because pretty much when I took the blurry pic, noises came from behind: angry crow noises...

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🇦🇹 Gestern hab ich einige Seeadler gesehen. Leider waren alle zu weit weg für wirklich tolle Bilder. Trotzdem hab ich mich recht über diese Sichtung gefreut 🙂

🇬🇧 Yesterday, I saw several White-tailed eagles. Sadly, they all were too far away for good pictures. Still, I am very happy, that I saw them. 🙂

One of the four rather wonderfully sculpted eagles on the Battlefield Monument in Glasgow. Designed by Alexander Skirving with sculptures by James Young, it was erected in 1887, and it commemorates the Battle of Langside between the army of Mary, Queen of Scots and that of the Earl of Moray, which took place nearby in 1568.

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Often birds eliminate to reduce weight just before flying. This bald eagle was perched on a stump and 'peed', but then never took off for flight. Eagle sits on a snowy log with a snowy forest in the background.

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