The eagles put on a show today.  I saw them way out over the water, two small lines changing shape over the water as the flapped, basically two-dimensional.  One chased another all the way to Eagle Landing Park, where the lead eagle dropped a fish and the second eagle dove down after it.  I could not distinguish whether they were adults or juveniles.  Moments later, I saw two eagles, I assume they were the same two, land in a couple of cedar trees.  One had a white head and the other was a juvenile.  The adult then flew by at eye level.  The juvenile flew into the maple trees, a dangerous mistake by an inexperienced flier.  The adults always land in the same spots, where they have plenty of room to take off.  This juvenile amid the dense branches of the maples had to take some time to plot a course back out. 

Later, after we walked out of the park and headed north, I saw two eagles side by side in the dead tree half a mile north of the park.  Right near that dead tree, I saw a nest with fledglings in it a couple of years ago.  The two trees, the nest tree and the perch tree, are right on the southern edge of Seahurst Park, near some homes.  The homes are always quiet, as far as I have ever observed, and they probably don't shoot at the eagles.  In 2008, a local resident took a picture of 18 eagles in the dead tree.  The accompanying comments said there had been as many as 24 at one point.  They may have all been related, all offspring of the pair that first nested in ELP in 1989.  Maybe they will move back to ELP someday, or a new pair will begin nesting here.