Hello,
I took verry good photos of an Golden Eagle at the Samish Flats close to a
house what had a Windmill the bird was sitting close to this windmill.
Onother time driving to Neah Bay close to the road, this was also in the
fall.
Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma

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> From: Darryl Thompson <birds at cmc.net>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Golden Eagles In Black Diamond Area?
> Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 5:44 PM
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> 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
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> >Lydia and tweets,
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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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> >Cheers, Diann
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> W.Darryl Thompson