At 08:38 AM 2/3/97 -0800, Michael Patrick wrote:
>Tweeters,

>As for eagles - we got tired of counting them! There were at least 50 in
>the stretch of open fields between the border and Delta. They were in the
>trees, in the fields (hoofing it with the gulls, they were apparently finding
>something of enough interest to walk about), on the fence posts, flying
>around,
>sheesh!

A co-worker went to the Skagit River delta this past weekend and met with
Libby Mills,
the Nature Conservancy's steward of the upriver Skagit River Bald Eagle
Natural Area.
There are reportedly more bald eagles in the delta than upstream right now.
Perhaps
high water has made salmon carcasses largely unavailable, I don't know.
But, I was
told that *afterbirth* was the big attractor in the pastures near the delta.

Could this be the big draw at Boundry Bay as well?

Kelly McAllister
Olympia, Washington