{"id":8151,"date":"2026-10-16T20:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T04:10:22","slug":"alaska-the-great-salmon-saga-sea-eagles-and-gulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8151","title":{"rendered":"Alaska. The Great Salmon Saga: Sea eagles and Gulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5358_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"628\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8130\">Alaska. The Great Salmon Saga: Sea Lions and Gulls<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8134\">Alaska. The Great Salmon Saga: Bears<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gulls can\u2019t manage to consume a whole salmon, so they look for someone to tear it apart for them. They pestered a young sea eagle that had decided to have a snack. The poor thing had no idea how to get rid of this mob, which kept crowding right up to its beak\u2014as if they were its own offspring.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5361_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5365_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"647\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5368_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"717\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5371_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5372_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5375_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He managed to escape from them, but his happiness didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5413_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"754\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another young sea eagle\u2014well-fed, having escaped the gulls by taking to a tree.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5518_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"703\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5519_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"853\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adult<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5291_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"832\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5293_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"844\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gulls. With fish<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5443_seagl.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5444_seagl.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and in themselves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5426_salmon.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5433_salmon.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=29212562031684895&#038;set=a.494765153891299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss on FB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5358_eagle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"628\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8130\">Alaska. The Great Salmon Saga: Sea Lions and Gulls<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8134\">Alaska. The Great Salmon Saga: Bears<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gulls can\u2019t manage to consume a whole salmon, so they look for someone to tear it apart for them. They pestered a young sea eagle that had decided to <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8151\">Alaska. The Great Salmon Saga: Sea eagles and Gulls<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[579,589,393,587],"tags":[595,463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}