Yesterday: winter wrens (2) sang! Also, I swear I heard a creeper,
just once. Unfortunately, too much people conversation.

I walk regularly in a patch of second-growth Doug fir called "Weowna
Park" (how cute), a Bellevue city park. It's full of conifers and
broad leaf maples, fern--lovely. I use the access from W. Lk. Samm.
NE, about 1/2 mile S of where Northup ends on W. LK. Samm. The city
has actually folded 3 mi. of trail into this area. Owls and deer
(infrequently seen) and mountain beaver holes (so I was told) and all
manner of forest birds grace this lovely spot.

Last summer we regularly saw and heard eagles around the lake and in,
mostly, the south end of the park. One night we saw five eagles of
varying maturity perched on a couple of snags just off the trail. We
were gone through the fall, but the eagles are noisy again in the
same area now. I have a friend in Beaux Arts who had an eagle nest in
her back yard--literally. Could they have flown from there after
leaving their nest? Anybody know of eagles nesting near the Lake,
south of Northup WY?

kathy hornbein
bellevue, wa
kurlew at earthlink.net