Now this is just silly

I know there’s been a lot of ill-feeling between Canada and the US in recent weeks, what with Mushroom Cock gibbering about annexing Canada and Canada understandably not wanting that and then him putting tariffs on the country and Trudeau tariffing the US right back, hockey fans booing the US anthem when the US and Canada played, shops removing American-made goods from their shelves, Ontario threatening to end electricity suppplies to the US (cos they make enough that they can actually export it to areas like Michigan and New York)…

…but this just feels ridiculous. Apparently a bald eagle was observed going after a Canadian goose and, though the latter was the less powerful bird, it sent the American one packing:

Mervyn Sequeira, an Ontario photographer, was out with his family on a recent morning when they spotted a bald eagle descending towards a frozen lake.
Sensing a looming attack on unsuspecting prey, Sequeira scanned the landscape and saw a Canada goose, alone and vulnerable.
For the next 20 minutes, lens trained on the battle, Sequeira watched what he expected would be a lopsided fight with a grim coda.
Through bursts of his shutter, however, he captured a defiant goose fending off death.
“I’ve seen bald eagles take a lot of things, from ducks to muskrats. But this is the first time I’ve seen a bald eagle go in for something as big as a goose,” he said.
Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off. […]
Sequeira, a retired airline pilot and avid bird photographer, is hesitant to impress symbolism on to the pictures.
“It’s quite a coincidence that it should have happened at this time. And I’m not entirely surprised. I like to look at things from the naturalist point of view and from the wildlife photographer’s point of view and not put a spin on it. But it’s quite natural for people to look at it in the context of what’s happening,” he said.

Yeah, trying to read symbolism into it is kind of absurd, though given the world situation it’s understandable. The timing of it certainly is kind of marvellous, and after all everyone loves a good underdog story. Or should that be underbird?