For David Sexton of the RSPB, the man responsible for managing the complex relationship between people and eagles here, spring is a stressful time.
A totemic symbol for neolithic people who buried their dead with white-tailed eagles on Orkney, it was all too easily trapped, poisoned and shot to extinction, the last bird killed in 1918.
"The eagles are here to stay but I was better off before they were here," he says.
One disappeared from a field where he has a "particular problem" with the eagles.
In the mountains are eagles and vultures, including the condor, while the beech forests teem with treecreepers, woodpeckers and even hummingbirds.
12.18pm: Legal eagles have suspected for years now that Justice Antonin Scalia, based on record of opinions related to the Commerce Clause, might vote to uphold the PPACA.
The animal cargo, worth $113,715, reportedly included: two lappet-faced vultures, two serval cats, two impalas, two black verreaux's eagles, three elands, four giraffes, four ground hornbill, five spring hares, six oryx, seven kori bustard, 10 dik-dik, 20 Grant's gazelle, 68 Thomson's gazelle, and a secretary bird.
You'll spend three nights in the historic mining town of McCarthy, surrounded by glaciers and 4,000m peaks, and cruise across Prince William Sound, a stunning glacial landscape that is home to orcas, seals and bald eagles.
You'll have time to explore this coastal temperate rainforest by foot and kayak - look out for black bears, wolves, otters, eagles and the indigenous First Nation culture.
It doesn't bode well for an exciting work trip to Mull this week to look for white-tailed eagles.
