hugh

the 'pros' counted 255 eagles in the area mentioned in your post on dec.
30th. see skagiteagle.org/ic/ic eaglecount.htm that number was down 45
from the week before. i was up there a couple times in the last two weeks
and saw lots of birds. depending on the time of day, they hang out in
different places. early on they are down on the water scavenging
carcasses. later in the day, they are up in the trees drying off or flying
around. we saw seven in the air at one time over the hatchery at
marblemount around 1 in the afternoon of the 30th. there appear to be few
spawner fish left at this point and given the recent weather my guess is the
birds will disperse quickly this year. there was a very big pink salmon run
late last year which is said to negatively impact other fish runs later on.
if the fish are gone, the birds don't have much reason to hang around.
there are scads of baldies working the delta, picking off wounded snow
geese. there should be a rule that a hunter who wounds a bird gets to be
shot at by the bird he/she didn't dispatch, but that's probably not a proper
statement for this board, so i really did not say such a thing.

long story short, yr friends probably weren't looking in the right places.

regards,

t

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dave templeton
fall city, wa

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