The eagle has not yet landed here. Sigh.
Don't you mean the Pidgeot?
I've been playing for a little over two weeks now, and I finally managed to reach level 20 yesterday. There are some PokeStops in a historical park near my house, so I have ready access to items, which helps immensely. Since they're the only PokeStops in the general vicinity, everybody that plays Pokemon GO comes there. I've discovered that this mostly happens in the evening--the park fills up with at least a dozen people every day at this time, and there's often at least one lure module going at any given moment.
Apart from the odd outlier here or there (like the Growlithe and Pikachu I found a few days ago), it's mostly Pidgey, Weedle, Rattata, and Venonat I find around where I live. It's only through chance encounters and eggs that I've managed to fill in 70 Pokemon in my Pokedex. It would have been 71, but a few days ago I had a heartbreaking experience as a passenger in a car where the screen wouldn't react to my tapping fast enough for me to enter an encounter with a Lapras. In fact, water Pokemon in general are somewhat rare around my house, unless you count the Staryu that keeps spawning in the same spot near the township office, and the occasional Magikarp and Psyduck I'll find amongst the dozens of Pidgey.
So far, according to the app I've walked over 100 km, and I think that's rather conservative--the medal for distance walked doesn't seem to be counting everything I do since it doesn't seem to increment at the same rate as my egg hatching meters. Speaking of eggs, I've hatched 41 so far, including two 10 km ones. The latter two contained a medium-high CP Eevee (a bit disappointing since Eevee are relatively common around me, but nonetheless nice for an Eevee trainer like me) and an Onix of middling CP. The same evening as this last one I randomly found an 850+ CP Tauros just while walking home, so the Onix got overshadowed.
My favorite part of the game is the eggs. I've been trying out IEMs lately, and my method of field testing has been loading up the Pokemon GO app and listening to music while I walk and rack up distance to hatch my eggs (and catch Pidgey). It gives me time to think and to evaluate gear--I'd be walking and listening to music, anyway, so this just gives me something else to do and an incentive to keep going for longer.
Along with the PokeStops, the park also has a gym. I'm waiting until I can level up my set of Eeveelutions to at least 1,500 CP apiece before I challenge it. I
have chosen my team, though. I went with Mystic (go blue!), partly because of the three its logo looked the coolest to me, but mostly because Mystic seems to be in control of the gyms around where I live most often, so I can get some friendly training done and maybe even station one of my tougher Pokemon in the local gym to help defend it.
That's all for now. I probably just made myself look like an uber nerd with this post. Actually, this whole thing has made me want to play real Pokemon, which is something I've never actually done. I'm thinking about getting a 3DS and a copy of X or Y, so I have something to do when I've got some free time and I'm not on my evening walk catching Pidgey and Rattata.