My nephew rushed into the living room the other day, frantically looking for a camera.  He was told that there was an eagle on the street.  Not just flying around, but literally, on the street. 

No way was I going to pass up the chance to see an eagle.

So, armed with my trusty Sony, Jose and I made our way up the street as stealthily as we could.  Sure enough, he was there, standing imperiously on the corner, looking like he owned everything.  It was an awesome sight.  When we moved closer, he had already turned his back on us, but his wings were still sort of spread out.  See:



He's almost as big as a tire!

I wish we could have come closer, but we were scared.  :(  I mean, what if he got into a rage and flew at us with claws ready?  So we watched from a pretty safe distance.  After we took pictures, we went inside to report to Mom... when I went out again, he was gone :(  But it was so great that we saw him.  And there was a smaller eagle-like bird perched on the tree right above this guy, too!

One of the perks of living in Palo Alto... :)