This is unbelievable!!!
My wife and I dug out the gooseberry bush roots and tilled the ground deep in front of our balcony today due to previous rat problems there.
Now it was 19:25 and sunset was at 19:10 but it was still light out. So I was out on the balcony bringing in the bird feeders and sweeping the balcony deck of any stray seed.
I looked out over the balcony for any new rat holes and there sitting by our garden edge was this hudge, strong White-Tailed Eagle, brown with a yellow beak. We had quite the stare-down contest but then he turned his back to me and slowly flew away over the lawn to the south! It was then that I saw his white tail feathers! Truely Amazing!!!
But I hope the Tits living in the cherry laurel bushes next to where he was are OK! But my rat problem is now solved!
Something had landed so hard on the outside edge of my balcony's berry pergola the other evening as to tilt the pergola slightly with a loud thud. That must have been what it was!!! Heavens!
They live over in the industrial park and on the high voltage towers at the edge of the fields just south of me. The German state news agency 'NDR' also had reported about White-Tailed Eagles lately coming inland to small towns here in Schleswig - Holstein.