Good morning



With the day off my husband and I made the trip up to Fir Island. The weather was beautiful and so were the birds. We stopped to watch a group of trumpeter swans take off and land when we saw a eagle in a nearby tree.? We drove over to take a picture of the eagle and a few minutes later it took off.? We thought it just got tired of us watching it when all of a sudden it flew low behind a bunch of the swans and tried to grab one.? I had seen them look hard at snow geese before but never actually go after one.? Allthough I'm sure they do - but a huge swan!? The swan got away with all it's feathers.



I managed to get one good picture:



http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh152/DDLewis1/?action=view&current=eagle1-1.jpg



After Fir Island we made our way up to Samish Flats.? We saw merlins swooping?on the dunlins and a beautiful falcon sitting in the sun near the Padilla Bay? visitor center.? We drove around Samish Island and saw more eagles,? I was taking pictures of another eagle with the bay in the back gound when it's mate flew by.? I snapped a pic of it flying by and when I got home I looked closer at the picture only to notice that the eagle had a fish hook hanging from it's bill.? This is a blown up picture of the eagle head:



http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh152/DDLewis1/?action=view&current=eaglehook.jpg



I don't suppose there's any way of finding this eagle and removing the hook but I thought I would just let everyone know.



Have a good day

D Lewis

North Bend, WA

debsstuffatcomcast dot net