Reintroduced White-Tailed Sea Eagles Flourish in Scotland

Reintroduced white-tailed sea eagles flourish in Scotland

Having disappeared in 1916, white-tailed sea eagles were reintroduced to Britain in the 1970s. It took 10 years for a pair to nest but now they are flourishing. Michael McCarthy reports from the Inner Hebrides

30 May 2005

The sight of these birds triggers powerful feelings inside us, feelings that must be inherited, and very ancient. It seems to live on in our tissues, the awe which our distant ancestors must have felt for these magnificent killers that were a familiar part of their cold and cruel world, birds which symbolised so much: survival, strength, supremacy, splendour.

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Perhaps that's why the sight is so utterly liberating. They remind us, with an exhilarating shock, that there is more to life than the ways in which we are bound: to commuting, to mortgages, to inescapable routine in air-conditioned offices. Nothing binds an eagle, except fate itself.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=642657

Somebody's projecting.

are quite lazy and would take the path of least resistance to get food.

Animals take what they can get. Especially dogs. Given a choice between hunting and nosing through garbage, it's garbage. Every time.

:)