Sea eagle attacks and wounds clergyman

From The "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" Department - Australian Division

A PERTHSHIRE clergyman was this week recovering from wounds which he sustained under attack by a sea eagle which had preyed upon his show poultry, writes Philippa Stephen.

The Very Reverend Hunter Farquharson, Provost of Perth’s Episcopal Cathedral, had tried to scare away the bird after it attacked and killed his prized Toulouse goose, Beatrice.

“I returned home to find a goose with its face ripped to shreds,” reported Mr Farquharson. “The remaining geese were badly traumatised. I found them cowering in the long grass. A short while later the sea eagle returned and chased a gander into a hut. I went over to see it off and it turned on me.”

The attack left him with cuts on his head, hands and a four inch cut across his back.

The sea eagle, one of the UK’s biggest birds of prey, was later trapped and returned to the RSPB, who are running a reintroduction programme of the species with Scottish Natural Heritage – a project that has faced consistent opposition from some farmers and crofters who say the birds frequently attack and kill livestock.

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