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Old 04-23-14 | 01:33 PM
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PennyTheDog
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Joined: Jun 2011
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From: Hopkins, Minnesota

Bikes: 2013 Surly Crosscheck, 1990 Schwinn Impact, 1973 Schwinn Continental

OK, this was last week, but I forgot to mention it and it was super cool! I was biking along in the morning, in a southern suburb of minneapolis, and I saw a big bird soaring nearby. I'm don't know anything about birds, but I know that big birds that soar are unusual, so I looked more closely, and it was a bald eagle. I've never seen one in the city, so I stopped to watch. It was pretty close, and it looked like it was being "guarded" by about five seagulls as it did a long, slow circle in the sky-- I was pretty curious what they were doing. They were surrounding the eagle, all within a couple meters of it, just flying along. After circling like that for a long time, suddenly the eagle swooped down and picked something up off the ground. And all of a sudden all the seagulls attacked the eagle! The eagle dropped the object, and they all flew away. I went over to look at the object, and it was a newly-killed seagull. The other seagulls were trying to save it. I've never seen a nature event in person like that!

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