Raymond Parsons recently took an excellent photo of an eagle with a
large orange patagial tag (K23) on Bayview-Edison Rd
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/rparsons/2099452434/). Turns out that
this tagged eagle came out of a program to restore bald eagles to Santa
Catalina Island (CA). I emailed Dr. Peter Sharpe with the Institute for
Wildlife Studies and was told that he was hatched from captive birds at
the San Francisco Zoo in 2002 and fostered into a nest on the island in
2002. He left the island in fall 2003 and has since been reported at
the Lewiston Fish Hatchery in N. CA (1/15/03), with another adult in
Genoa, NV (5/17/06), and at Crescent Beach, B.C. (4/21/07).

Jennifer Bohannon
La Conner