Dream Log - 1/22/2000

This morning I dreamed that a bald eagle had nested on the back porch of our house. I saw it first - I was in the kitchen when I saw a white head, a hooked yellow beak. The front part of the window swung open toward the porch. She pulled open the sash and dragged out a mouse. Since I couldn't really see her, I thought it was just the mouse - and I wasn't bothered by the idea of the mouse, living there - it was cute. Then eagle chick appeared and the mother was in full view. I called my dad. It took the rest of the family a while to come out of the living room. They didn't seem too excited as I was, but we all stood around the window and watched. My dad asked me, "Do eagles fly?" which I wasn't sure was a joke or a deliberately stupid question. Later, I had to pull a little girl who was visiting us back in the house - she had ventured onto the porch and was petting the eagle. She kept saying, "The police are at Giant Eagle." When I went to get her she was scared and crying because the eagle had swiped at her and pulled her eyebrow off. I told her it would grow back.