hello, all:

scott dodson and i went up along the skagit river on hiway 20 and some of the side roads from sedro wooley to the hatchery at marblemount. lots of eagles. we stopped at the forest service and their preliminary count data showed an increase this week from last week which had gone down from the prior week. i don't know what the fish counts ere.

we saw 85 eagles for the day. the first two were juveniles (looked like a first year and a second year) feeding in a field on the last bit of what appeared to be a swan. there were lots of juvenile swan feathers in the front yard of a house about 300 yards from the kill.

lots of other birds around as well. the winner of the lightweight division was a flock of a dozen or so golden-crowned kinglets in rockport. a great blue heron at steelhead park allowed several photographers to approach within 15 yards or so and snap away to their heart's delight. scott opined the heron might be willing to hang with humans to avoid running into the eagles. made sense to me.

the weather was fecal all day -- rainy, blustery and chilly. still, seeing 5 or 6 eagles at a time in a single tree made the conditions tolerable.

regards,

dave templeton
fall city, wa

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