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A Whale In My Front Yard And An Eagle Nest In The Back With Videos

Raoul Eiseman
16 min readJan 28, 2024

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Includes videos of the whale in shallow water and the eagle nest on the tallest tree in the back and a flight of the eagle after feeding the two young ones in the nest.

I was visiting my parents house for the first time in years because it had been rented for over a decade without advertising because when one tenant left a family member of the departing tenant or a friend of the tenant would move in and the deposit money was transferred to the next person after they had been researched by my Property Manager. One day I get a call from the current tenant that she had a family emergency and needed to fly to a relative so no notice would be given as she was moving and would pay the rent until the end of the lease. I hung up thinking that the house would be empty since my dad died and I could sleep there for the first time in decades.

My parents had bought the house in 1958 when I was twelve years old and they had left it to me after they were both gone. I flew up after the tenant had moved to a house with no furniture and immediately said hello to my neighbors that I known for decades and ask for an air mattress. I put the mattress in my parent’s master bedroom that I had never slept in and thought it would be nice to put it where my parents bed was so when I got up in the morning I would see the same view they got up to every morning for 40 years.

I went out in the morning sun and there is a big hill behind the house that has trees that must be…

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