Eagle-versus-cat standoff in Vancouver park captured in photos, video | 24CA News
An East Vancouver man captured an unlikely animal encounter when an on a regular basis home cat and an impressive bald eagle had a tense faceoff in a park.
Peter Davidson was on the Cunningham Elementary playground, close to Nanaimo Street and East thirty seventh Avenue, together with his two-year-old son Saturday.
Also on the park was Bruno, his neighbour’s pleasant orange tabby.
Then it obtained a bit of extra crowded: a bald eagle swooped down onto the sector to drink from a puddle.
“I noticed the cat checking it out right away,” Davidson stated. “I thought they might actually get along.”
Plenty of out of doors cats stalk birds however Bruno apparently has extra ambition than most.
Photos and video present the feline cautiously approaching the raptor, again barely arched and tail twitching.
A maybe too-bold tabby and a cautious bald eagle met in a park and sized one another up.
“The eagle sort of puffed itself up and did sort of a bluff charge or two,” Davidson described.
Fortunately, no animals had been harmed within the making of this story. After a number of tense minutes, Davidson stated, the eagle flew off.
Bruno chased after it, he added, maybe claiming victory within the dust-up over a mud puddle.
‘Wasn’t precisely the neatest cat’
Bird professional Rob Hope with the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society says it is a good factor cats and eagles typically do not tangle fairly often.
“Wasn’t exactly the smartest cat on the block,” Hope stated after viewing Davidson’s images and video.
Urban eagles, he stated, are typically savvy about domesticated pets and steer clear.
But if the encounter did escalate, he stated, maybe by the cat pouncing, the eagle would both flee or use its talons to guard itself, which “would have been not very pretty.”
“They can defend themselves against anything,” Hope stated. “We’ve even seen and had reports of a bald eagle defending itself against coyotes.”
Eagles do not hunt pets as a rule, he added, however generally can mistake kittens or very small canines as rodents.
He’s glad the eagle determined to hen out.
“If [the eagle] really wanted to do something in that situation, it definitely could’ve,” Hope stated. “It could’ve turned nasty, which nobody wants to see.”
