Feeding The Eagles In Alaska

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I have had several experiences with eagles, but not as good as feeding them.

We lived on the Puget Sound and watched eagles swooping down for fish pretty often. Our living room had two story glass on two sides of it and one day I was pregnant and holding my two year old twins.... and an eagle almost busted through the glass to land on my lap. Luckily it noticed a reflection in time and swooped up in time.

The living room is the glassed area on the left side of the house. The Sound is just beyond that.

Jen wrote:I have had several experiences with eagles, but not as good as feeding them.

We lived on the Puget Sound and watched eagles swooping down for fish pretty often.  Our living room had two story glass on two sides of it and one day I was pregnant and holding my two year old twins....  and an eagle almost busted through the glass  to land on my lap.  Luckily it noticed a reflection in time and swooped up in time.  

The living room is the glassed area on the left side of the house.  The Sound is just beyond that.

I used to go up to visit my favorite aunt/uncle in Bothel every other year. Puget Sound is a beautiful area. Used to love taking boats or a ship further north through the Sound and seeing the eagles...it's awesome. I remember one time going to Ivar's down on the wharf, we were eating outside, and my uncle was pointing out things to me in the area, waving his hand around. He had a french fry in his hand, when all of a sudden a sea gull swooped down and snatched it out of his hand ;o)) Ya' just never knew what was going to happen. We went up to the San Juan Islands to get a boat and go out whale watching. It was our lucky day... we got to see a super pod of orcas. They were INCREDIBLE!

Elizabeth Theus wrote:

Jen wrote:I have had several experiences with eagles, but not as good as feeding them.

We lived on the Puget Sound and watched eagles swooping down for fish pretty often.  Our living room had two story glass on two sides of it and one day I was pregnant and holding my two year old twins....  and an eagle almost busted through the glass  to land on my lap.  Luckily it noticed a reflection in time and swooped up in time.  

The living room is the glassed area on the left side of the house.  The Sound is just beyond that.

I used to go up to visit my favorite aunt/uncle in Bothel every other year.  Puget Sound is a beautiful area.  Used to love taking boats or a ship further north through the Sound and seeing the eagles...it's awesome.  I remember one time going to Ivar's down on the wharf, we were eating outside, and my uncle was pointing out things to me in the area, waving his hand around.  He had a french fry in his hand, when all of a sudden a sea gull swooped down and snatched it out of his hand  ;o))  Ya' just never knew what was going to happen.  We went up to the San Juan Islands to get a boat and go out whale watching.  It was our lucky day... we got to see a super pod of orcas.  They were INCREDIBLE!

Ivars!  Loved that place.  We saw whales on the ferry from Kingston (Kitsap Peninsula) to Edmond (north of Seattle).  I think that Puget Sound area is one of the most beautiful places in this country.  That house we lived in was idyllic.....out in the forest (a quarter mile driveway with a turn at the end ... a tunnel in the trees)....We couldn't even see a street from our house, yet we were on the edge of a tiny town.  We could see Seattle across the Sound and on a good day we could see Mt Ranier down the Sound from our deck on the water side of the house.  We loved it there.

Jen wrote:

Elizabeth Theus wrote:

Jen wrote:I have had several experiences with eagles, but not as good as feeding them.

We lived on the Puget Sound and watched eagles swooping down for fish pretty often.  Our living room had two story glass on two sides of it and one day I was pregnant and holding my two year old twins....  and an eagle almost busted through the glass  to land on my lap.  Luckily it noticed a reflection in time and swooped up in time.  

The living room is the glassed area on the left side of the house.  The Sound is just beyond that.

I used to go up to visit my favorite aunt/uncle in Bothel every other year.  Puget Sound is a beautiful area.  Used to love taking boats or a ship further north through the Sound and seeing the eagles...it's awesome.  I remember one time going to Ivar's down on the wharf, we were eating outside, and my uncle was pointing out things to me in the area, waving his hand around.  He had a french fry in his hand, when all of a sudden a sea gull swooped down and snatched it out of his hand  ;o))  Ya' just never knew what was going to happen.  We went up to the San Juan Islands to get a boat and go out whale watching.  It was our lucky day... we got to see a super pod of orcas.  They were INCREDIBLE!

Ivars!  Loved that place.  We saw whales on the ferry from Kingston (Kitsap Peninsula) to Edmond (north of Seattle).  I think that Puget Sound area is one of the most beautiful places in this country.  That house we lived in was idyllic.....out in the forest (a quarter mile driveway with a turn at the end ... a tunnel in the trees)....We couldn't even see a street from our house, yet we were on the edge of a tiny town.  We could see Seattle across the Sound and on a good day we could see Mt Ranier down the Sound from our deck on the water side of the house.  We loved it there.

I always thought if I were to ever move to a city bigger thatn the KCMO metro, it would be up around Seattle. That's the only place that could entice me to a bigger city. I'm so glad my aunt/uncle can't see what it's turned in to now...

Elizabeth Theus wrote:

Jen wrote:

Elizabeth Theus wrote:

Jen wrote:I have had several experiences with eagles, but not as good as feeding them.

We lived on the Puget Sound and watched eagles swooping down for fish pretty often.  Our living room had two story glass on two sides of it and one day I was pregnant and holding my two year old twins....  and an eagle almost busted through the glass  to land on my lap.  Luckily it noticed a reflection in time and swooped up in time.  

The living room is the glassed area on the left side of the house.  The Sound is just beyond that.

I used to go up to visit my favorite aunt/uncle in Bothel every other year.  Puget Sound is a beautiful area.  Used to love taking boats or a ship further north through the Sound and seeing the eagles...it's awesome.  I remember one time going to Ivar's down on the wharf, we were eating outside, and my uncle was pointing out things to me in the area, waving his hand around.  He had a french fry in his hand, when all of a sudden a sea gull swooped down and snatched it out of his hand  ;o))  Ya' just never knew what was going to happen.  We went up to the San Juan Islands to get a boat and go out whale watching.  It was our lucky day... we got to see a super pod of orcas.  They were INCREDIBLE!

Ivars!  Loved that place.  We saw whales on the ferry from Kingston (Kitsap Peninsula) to Edmond (north of Seattle).  I think that Puget Sound area is one of the most beautiful places in this country.  That house we lived in was idyllic.....out in the forest (a quarter mile driveway with a turn at the end ... a tunnel in the trees)....We couldn't even see a street from our house, yet we were on the edge of a tiny town.  We could see Seattle across the Sound and on a good day we could see Mt Ranier down the Sound from our deck on the water side of the house.  We loved it there.

I always thought if I were to ever move to a city bigger thatn the KCMO metro, it would be up around Seattle.  That's the only place that could entice me to a bigger city.  I'm so glad my aunt/uncle can't see what it's turned in to now...

Kitsap County is across the Puget Sound from Seattle so it is separated from that awfulness by the Sound. It has grown up a lot since we were there, but Kitsap is a decent and beautiful place that is near Seattle but separated from it enough that the awfulness hasn't touched it.

Even on the same side of the Sound....... there are lovely towns on the west side of the Cascades that haven't been touched by what has happened in Seattle.

I remember still the first time I flew out to see them. I was 15, my first BIG trip all by myself. It was dark by the time my plane got into SeaTac. The next morning after breakfast, I went outside to look around, and was stunned by the trees around the house. I started looking up, and up, and up.......and was amazed at the size of these trees-----they were HUGE & BEAUTIFUL. And the pine cones! They were like 10 to 14 times the size of the little pine cones back in Kansas/Missouri....I didn't know pinecones could grow that big. My aunt Dorothy and I hit it off from the start. We became so close. I'd call her with my problems and joys, I shared with her all the things I SHOULD have been able to share with my mother(s). Every couple of months we'd have like a marathon phone call. I'd call and we'd talk literally for HOURS. Back in the day....those phone calls were on dad's tab ;o)) Every once in a while when he got one of those bills, he'd be like I'm so glad you and Dorothy are so close and talk. BUT......what an earth can you talk about for FOUR HOURS? It was a running joke between dad and me when I got older that he had to make me go to work just to pay for all the long distance phone calls to WA ;o)))

Elizabeth Theus wrote:I remember still the first time I flew out to see them.  I was 15, my first BIG trip all by myself.  It was dark by the time my plane got into SeaTac.  The next morning after breakfast, I went outside to look around, and was stunned by the trees around the house.  I started looking up, and up, and up.......and was amazed at the size of these trees-----they were HUGE & BEAUTIFUL.  And the pine cones!  They were like 10 to 14 times the size of the little pine cones back in Kansas/Missouri....I didn't know pinecones could grow that big.  My aunt Dorothy and I hit it off from the start.  We became so close.  I'd call her with my problems and joys, I shared with her all the things I SHOULD have been able to share with my mother(s).  Every couple of months we'd have like a marathon phone call.  I'd call and we'd talk literally for HOURS.  Back in the day....those phone calls were on dad's tab ;o))  Every once in a while when he got one of those bills, he'd be like I'm so glad you and Dorothy are so close and talk.  BUT......what an earth can you talk about for FOUR HOURS?  It was a running joke between dad and me when I got older that he had to make me go to work just to pay for all the long distance phone calls to WA ;o)))

I grew up in Texas so the trees were amazing to me. When we moved to Kitsap, the moving truck couldn't even go down that quarter mile road to our house because of the trees on either side. They had to move things in with a smaller truck.

There are no hurricanes there and tornadoes are rare. But there are wind storms that can snap those huge trees or upend them. I remember seeing those 5' diameter tree trunks swaying at the bottom and keeping the kids in the thickest part of the house in case one snapped and fell on the house. A tree at the end of our garage upended and luckily fell away from our house. The root ball was almost twice as tall as me.

The road to our house... it took a turn at the end. It was about a quarter of a mile from the street to our garage. Obviously... we never got trick or treaters.