Lydia and tweets,

Golden eagles aren't usual west of the mountains, but they can certainly
show up. We very occasionally (twice) have recorded them crossing the
strait at our raptor monitoring station at Salt Creek, there are two
records from field trips in the late 80s on the Skagit/Samish flats, and
they have supposedly nested on and off on San Juan Island - this probably
due to the more open habitat and the abundance of rabbits.

Cheers, Diann
Olympic Vulture Study
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