tweesters, re. goldens: almost every year we count goldens in our CBC in
Everett in the Lowell-Larimer area along the trestle, by that I mean usually
one and usually an immature with clear black and white tail and underwings.
Also, the area around Lord Hill often has ay least one some time in the
winter as does the Snoqualamie Valley south of Bob Heirman Park about 4
miles. As Bud Anderson will attest, we sometimes have seen them around
Samish Flats in winter also. One was on Jetty Island last year or the year
before, I forget which now. They like rabbits, but I've seen them dive into
flocks of wigeons and nail some haplees duck too!

Darryl
<birds at cmc.net>
Edmonds








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>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.
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W.Darryl Thompson