Subject: Steller's Sea-Eagle on Whidbey Island?!?
Date: Jun 4 16:33:23 1996
From: Eugene Hunn - hunn at u.washington.edu
I received a call passed on from the SAS office today from a Natalie
Hahn-Bradley (360-331-2283) reporting a sighting of an adult and an
immature Steller's Sea-Eagle side by side with an adult Bald Eagle ("much
larger, very heavy bill, white shoulder on adult, all dark young bird") at
the boatlaunch at Freeland Park on the east shore of Whidbey Island
somewhat north of Useless Bay. She approached them very closely last
Thursday at 8:50 Am but hasn't seen them since. She thinks she saw one
earlier... I advised her as to the extreme rarity of such a sighting and
encouraged her to keep a camera with her at all times. For what it's
worth....
Gene Hunn.