Subject: Marked Bald Eagle
Date: Dec 17 12:27:00 1996
From: "Gates, Bryan R." - BRGATES at ASSESSMENT.env.gov.bc.ca


Thanks to Kelly McAllister for relaying the information about the marked
Bald
Eagle at Goldstream Provincial Park. The Nature Centre there set up a
contest to see who could guess the origin of the bird. I just phoned
the
Nature Centre and asked them to put me down for "California". Then I
called back and read Kelly's message to them.

Can you believe it? They're refusing to give me the prize. I'll
litigate.

Thanks, Kelly. An interesting northward movement. If any of you have
had
the pleasure of sampling the heavy aroma of decaying salmon the drifts
out of Goldstream and other spawing streams each fall, it may be that
this
young bird followed his/her nose all the way north.

Bryan Gates, Victoria brgates at assessment.env.gov.bc.ca