Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Edmonds: Eagle and Dunlin
Date: Jan 25 15:19:19 2010
From: Bill Anderson - billandersonbic at yahoo.com


I may have seen Carol's eagle later this morning at the marsh.? As I got out of my pickup at the parking lot near the?marsh, I?heard nearby seagulls giving out their distress calls which usually indicate an eagle is nearby. I looked overhead, but saw nothing.?? I walked down the boardwalk and looking west, I saw why the seagulls were raising a ruckus. Perched on a telephone pole at the western edge of the marsh next to the railroad tracks was a bald eagle.

I estimated the eagle to be 3-4 years old as it still retained a few dark feathers, giving its head a dirty gray look rather than the sparkling white of a full fledged adult. It looked like the same eagle I photographed getting chased by seagulls off Sunset Ave. last week.? The eagle sat on the telephone pole for a while, then flew over the marsh, making a dive at something at the south edge of the marsh, about 400 yards from my location on the boardwalk.????It looked like it came up with something, possibly a duck, but my photos are inconclusive due to the distance.

The eagle?may have dropped whatever was in its grasp, as?it made a couple more low passes.? In doing so it?drew?the attention of the local minions of the Dark Lord (you call them crows), which gave chase. I last saw the eagle as it flew west over the marina and out over Puget Sound.
Bill Anderson; Edmonds, WA.