Scary Bird.

How cool is this pic? That’s me with a GOLDEN EAGLE on my arm!! I was terrified! Its beak was the size of a large fist and it weighed a tonne…
This was taken by Johnny Bugeja, the Chronicle photographer, quite a while back now. I found it today while I was looking through an old disc drive. It was snapped in Gibraltar while I was researching an article on the raptor unit run by the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society (www.gonhs.org)
These guys are great. Gibraltar is a key staging post for migrating birds of prey, but is also home to flocks of vicious seagulls. Many raptors are attacked and end up injured. The GONHS team cares for them and reintroduces them imto the wild.
They are also involved in conservation programs, both in Gibraltar and around the world. A first class effort!
Here’s the article, first published in the Gibraltar Chronicle.