{"id":9135,"date":"2011-03-08T20:57:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T04:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2011-03-08T20:57:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T04:57:51","slug":"seattle-bald-eagle-in-the-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9135","title":{"rendered":"Bald Eagle in the Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a huge bonus of living in Seattle: the urban and suburban wildlife includes a multitude of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baldeagleinfo.com\/eagle\/eagle8.html\">Bald Eagles<\/a>. This morning, Hugh went into our friends&#8217; garden to fill up their bird feeder &#8212; a chore we both kind of enjoy. A huge contingent of birds descends right when our boots leave the scene of the feeder.<\/p>\n<p>As he walked into the garden, seed in hand, he saw this [very] big bird, perched on top of the utility pole outside the back fence. Not a seed eater. This juvenile Bald Eagle came into the neighborhood a few weeks ago, but this is the first time we&#8217;ve seen it up close.<\/p>\n<p>The crows were not happy about the new turf intruder and made it clear. I snapped just a few frames with my E-3 before the eagle took off over Puget Sound, with a kite-tail of crows trailing behind.<\/p>\n<p><i>It takes the juvenile Bald Eagle about five years to acquire full adult plumage. I&#8217;ve seen them in various stages of coloration here in the Northwest. On this young eagle, you can see tufts of white where the grownup feathers will eventually be.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9137\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Juvenile-Perch-860.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9137\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9137\" title=\"Juvenile Bald Eagle\" alt=\"Juvenile Bald Eagle on Utility Pole\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Juvenile-Perch-860.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juvenile Bald Eagle on Utility Pole &#8211; \u00a9ingrid taylar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9136\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Juvenile-Fluff-2-860.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9136\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9136\" title=\"Bald Eagle Fluff\" alt=\"Juvenile Bald Eagle Plumage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Juvenile-Fluff-2-860.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind-Fluffed Bald Eagle &#8211; \u00a9ingrid taylar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a huge bonus of living in Seattle: the urban and suburban wildlife includes a multitude of Bald Eagles. This morning, Hugh went into our friends&#8217; garden to fill up their bird feeder &#8212; a chore we both kind of enjoy. A huge contingent of birds descends right when our boots leave the scene of the feeder. As he walked into the garden, seed in hand, he saw this [very] big bird, perched on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9135\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[492,103,157],"class_list":["post-9135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eagles","tag-raptors","tag-urban-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}