Dear Tweeters,

Today, before I could get out of the driveway and go birding, a kettle of Bald Eagles appeared over my house. That's near Lyman, Skagit County. There were 21 Bald Eagles in the kettle, plus a Red-tailed Hawk which occasionally buzzed one of the Bald Eagles. This was at 11:50 AM.

A few minutes later, at Lyman, there were a few more Bald Eagles by the river. One of the Bald Eagles, an immature, was flying around in a circle with what turned out to be a juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE!

I visited several other spots around Lyman, Hamilton, and Birdsview, and there were four or five eagles visible just about anywhere I stopped by the river.

I don't know how the eagle viewing was "upriver," during the Bald Eagle Festival, but there was good eagle viewing today along the Upper Middle Lower Skagit!

Yours truly,


Gary Bletsch?
Near Lyman, Washington (Skagit County), USA?garybletsch at yahoo.com?

Mentre che li occhi per la fronda verde
ficcava ?o s? come far suole
chi dietro a li uccellin sua vita perde, lo pi? che padre mi dicea: ?Figliuole,
vienne oramai, ch? ?l tempo che n?? imposto
pi? utilmente compartir si vuole?.??