I see them all the time, but not up close. I guess my question was about being “in the presence of”’ which is up to some level of interpretation…
I’ll get a new one started later today.
I sometimes see them far overhead at home. But in the summer, when I vacation near a nest, I see them up close most years. The week I am there is shortly after the chicks fledge, so the nest is still there, along with disgusting decaying bits of fish, but the birds have abandoned it. I see the juveniles hanging out on that island, or the three little islands closest to it. And they still beg their parents for food, which is kinda funny, as they are larger than their parents by then. The parents are still feeding them a bit, though. I think it’s hard to learn to eagle, so the parents fatten them up to give them a margin of error.