A good omen for the Eagles in the Super Bowl

My wife and I were having lunch at the kitchen table when she looked up and saw a bird coming in for a landing on the golf course that adjoins our yard. It was no ordinary bird. On this Super Bowl Sunday, a bald eagle paid us a call, and I consider that a good omen for the Philadelphia Eagles.

While the bird sat in the rough on the 11th hole, I went to fetch my camera. I had to put a fresh battery in and reinsert the SD card, and at that point the bird took off, flying toward our house and to my left. I couldn’t get the camera up quickly enough, and the bird continued through the trees and away.

My wife looked out from the front porch to see if the eagle had landed in a tree, but she found no sign of such. A couple of minutes later, I looked out the back windows and was startled to see the eagle standing in the middle of the retention pond on the 12th hole, roughly 100 yards away.

I took one shot through the window, then cautiously stepped out the back door, hoping to avoid any of the ice remaining from an overnight storm. I snapped a couple of shots before the bird took flight. It flew along the 10th fairway, and I had only a partial view of it as it passed the trees between us. It head west to the edge of the golf course and turned south, toward Philadelphia.

The best shot I got was the one topping this post, with the bird flying past the second-floor window of one of the condos on the golf course.

It’s always a thrill to see a bald eagle, even better when one pays a call in your neighborhood. Add to that the presumed good omen for the Eagles, and this became one extra special sighting.

Go birds! 🦅