Dear Rob and Tweeters,
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Most of the Golden Eagles I have seen have been in Skagit County, with a few in Whatcom and San Juan. Ignoring the San Juan ones, I have found GOEA in Western Washington?34 times over the last 21 years. The breakdown by month is as follows (month followed by number of incidents):
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September 7
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June 5
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February 4
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April 4
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January 3
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March 3
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August 3
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November 2
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May, July, October 1
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December zero.
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Recently, they have not been turning?up anywhere near as often as they did in the 1990's. I have not seen one this year in W WA, for example. Also, my best place had always been Sibley Pass (off Cascade River Road) in September. This year was the?first time that I visited that site in September and did not see a GOEA.
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Yours truly,,
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Gary Bletsch

Near Lyman, Washington (Skagit County), USA

garybletsch at yahoo.com

"Nun," sagte ich, "wenn ich ein Taugenichts bin, so ist's gut, so will ich in die Welt gehen, und mein Glueck machen." Und eigentlich war mir das recht lieb, denn es war mir kurz vorher selber eingefallen, auf Reisen zu gehen, da ich die Goldammer, welche im Herbst und Winter immer betruebt an unserm Fenster sang: "Bauer, miet' mich, Bauer, miet' mich!" nun in der schoenen Fruehlingszeit wieder ganz stolz und lustig vom Baume rufen hoerte: "Bauer, behalt' deinen Dienst!"


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> From: Rob Conway <robin_birder at hotmail.com>
>To: rob s <nwnature1 at gmail.com>; "tweeters at u.washington.edu" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 9:39 PM
>Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Golden eagle in western WA?
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>I have seen Golden Eagles three times in Western Washington, all in the eastern part of King County (Preston, North Bend).? I'm trying to find my logs on these but I think most of them were in later September / early October.? It would not surprise me if they are summer resident in the higher Cascades.
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>Rob Conway
>SW Portland
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>> From: nwnature1 at gmail.com
>> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 20:17:25 -0700
>> Subject: [Tweeters] Golden eagle in western WA?
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>> Outside the San Juan Islands, are there sightings of Golden Eagles in
>> Western WA? Saw what seemed like a oversized eagle today, and it did not
>> have the usual white tail and head, underside was dark with just a few
>> flecks of white.
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>> Rob Sandelin
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