Eye of the Eagle

We were bowling along at our usual 90kms p/h on Sunday when a wedge-tail eagle suddenly launched itself out of the grass on the passenger side and faltered just above the bonnet of the car. In what seemed like minutes but was in fact split seconds, we both held our collective breaths and hoped like hell that this beautiful specimen would get the wind beneath his wings and escape our windscreen. All of a sudden he soared skywards but not before dazzling us with an undercarriage of intricate feather patterns of brown, black, gold, white and cream, a 2- metre wingspan and drumsticks big enough to feed a small country for a day. We swear he eye-balled us before soaring up and over the top of the van. It made our day!