An eagle and a stray cat....

Not that an eagle and a cat have much in common, except that I saw them both this week near my house! It wasn't the largest eagle I've seen in the last two weeks just sitting in a tree beside the road, either!

This eagle was sitting in a single tree on the side of Highway 17 between our house and Webster City the other day and I was sure it would fly away if I stopped to take its picture, but you can see the evidence that it didn't.

This guy (girl??) showed up this evening and scratched on the glass patio door like it wanted in! I talked to it, and it answered back. Does that mean it's just lost?

Go home, cat, because we have enough fur at our house already! (It's the first time I've seen this one. The people who live on our corner have a black and white cat, or is it calico???)