Harbor Seals are also common around the locks, and that's not far from
Union Bay. Last summer/fall there was one that hung around the large
lock, it seemed to prefer being in the lock chamber.

On another note, a mature Bald Eagle was swooping low over the breakwater
at Shilshole chased by two very vocal gulls. Do gulls breed on the
breakwater? Two of the handful of Horned Grebes present are starting to
get there breeding colors, one much more advanced than the other.
=================
Cliff Drake
Seattle, (Ballard) WA
Birder at Juno.com


On Wed, 2 Apr 1997 08:04:44 -0800 (PST) "M. Donahue"
<mgd at u.washington.edu> writes:
>This is not an April fool's joke---
>
>Yesterday afternoon I was at the north end of the arboretum (actually
>the
>big grassy area that borders the lake, between 520 and the Lake
>Washington
>Blvd. onramp to 520) exercising my dog, and well, a harbor seal
>jumped out of the water.
>
>I watched it for the next hour or so. It only
>appeared when a dog was in the water retrieving sticks, and I hate to
>anthropomorphize, but it seemed to want to play with the dogs. After
>it
>goosed him in the water, my dog wouldn't go back in, but other dogs
>weren't at all bothered by the seal. When you threw the stick, the
>seal
>would surface where the stick landed in the water, and as the dog
>approached the seal would sink down. Once the dog had grabbed the
>stick,
>the seal would goose the dog, then make a couple of leaps out of the
>water
>from along side the dog as the dog swam back to shore.
>
>Have seals been reported in Lake Washington before?
>
>Mike Donahue
>
>