The things that happen in nature.....

I paid little attention to the eagle near the railroad at Brunswick Beach but I did notice a dozen crows attacking the eagle and screaming at it as only crows can do.  I could only assume the eagle had stolen a crow egg or some such thing.

The eagle disappeared into a small area of maple trees by the tracks.  A moment later the eagle seemed to fall out of the trees and land heavily on the tracks below.
One could see the eagle was having trouble moving along and was using his wings to propel his body along.  It was obvious that he had something in his grasp but I didn’t know what it was until I returned to the scene about an hour later and was told it was a grey cat or in fact the remainder of a grey cat which I saw on the tracks after it had been abandoned.  The dead cat was gone the following morning.

I always doubted that a hungry eagle could seize a fully grown cat but I doubt no more.

The facts cause many more questions than answers.  Was the cat killed by the eagle or did the eagle pick up the cat after it was killed by another animal?  Was the cat seized at Brunswick or somewhere else and brought here by the eagle?Who ended up with the carcass and indeed whose cat was it?  And on and on....

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