Time to hide the cats
There I was this evening, on the top deck grilling some bean burgers and I notice an unusually large crow drifting overhead... with a white head and tail.
Right, that's a mature bald eagle, cruising directly over our little marina in the middle of a huge city. It made a few lazy turns around the parking lot out front, then continued gliding toward downtown, doing more loops over the south portion of Lake Union before turning back north, passing directly overhead yet again (by this time I had the binoculars out to get a good view), then cruised north and out of sight toward Fremont.
It turns out this isn't the bird's first trip through the marina, either. Our neighbor saw it last weekend being chased by crows while carrying a very large fish, which it proceeded to drop back into the water, not more than fifty feet from our boats.
I'll try to get a picture if it comes by again, but I suspect it's going to turn out like one of those "polar bear in a white-out" images.