Logging began on Friday on the greenbelt separating our home from East Lake
Sammamish Parkway just SE of Marymoor Park. New townhomes will be going in.
Saturday we had two strange "backyard" visitors. A mature bald eagle,
probably one of the nesting pair in Marymoor Park, landed on a snag less
than a hundred feet from our patio. Sat there in full sunlight, giving me
enough time to mount my new long lens for some wonderful photos.

Last night, for the first time in the year we have lived here, we had two
Great Horned Owls calling from the same clump of trees where the eagle had
sat. The calling went on for several hours. We fell asleep listening to
them. That clump of trees will apparently fall this week.

Can birds mourn loss of habitat?

Grant Hendrickson "I go to Nature to be soothed and healed,and
Redmond, WA to have my senses put in tune once more."

e-mail: grant at brigadoon.com John Burroughs

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