>From a friend of a friend. Don't know how recent, but fairly. Can probably
track down details if anyone's that interested.

Andrea Grad
Alki
agrad at helsell.com
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Subject: Eagle Pounces
>
> To lighten our daily correspondence, let me report that for the second
> time in two weeks I today watched a Bald Eagle in a controlled dive
> smash into the Skagit River, half submerge and then with head only above
> water, float downstream, until it finally began to swim with strokes of
> its massive wings. Eagles swim very much like a human doing the
> butterfly stroke. This eagle, like the one last week, swam with steady
> strokes to a bank, where it emerged with a large fish. Last week the
> fish was a steelhead. This week I could not tell, even with
> binoculars. Both birds immediately began ripping long strips of flesh
> from the fish. Last week's bird had hardly started but another eagle
> showed and landed, causing a great contest over which eagle had the
> biggest wingspan. The eagle with the fish won the bluff. Today's eagle
> is tearing flesh in my sight as I write. I wish eagles liked to eat
> legislators who voted to restore cougar hunting.

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