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March 2019
Salish Sea
Eagle activity has been heating up as spring progresses in the Pacific Northwest. They returned from the mainland rivers where the majority spent the winter feasting on spawned out salmon.
On our most recent boat trip around offshore rocks and islands we saw a total of 16 Bald Eagles in various spots. Many were on Whale Rocks. We couldn’t get very near as an incoming tide was roiling the channel waters but my zoom lens could resolve enough to show a wide range of ages among them. I’m judging the ages of the immatures as best I can based on beak and plumage color.
As we circled around the Rocks you can see from this different angle they’re not really standing in a row.
Further along on our journey there were others on an island outcropping, hopping around from one spot to another. Hard to catch good pictures of eagles in flight from a moving boat but see if you can count all the eagles in this view.
A couple of weeks ago I watched a young eagle who’s been hanging around my local bay, on this occasion perched on a derelict boat on the beach.
Watch what it does as it prepares to take off:
Typical for birds in general!
But perhaps the biggest excitement for me lately has been seeing a local pair of eagles preparing to nest again in the somewhat ramshackle-looking nest in the field. We’ve seen one or both in the trees there occasionally since January but it wasn’t until this week one has been seen actually IN the nest. Here’s one as I saw it yesterday:
It might be incubating. It’s the season for it in this area. If they nest as they did last year we may be seeing eaglets by the end of April. Fingers crossed.
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Sunny and warmish in the PNW today. 46° at 9am. Yesterday was a bit cooler than it’s been but I wore shorts! Chorus frogs are still chorusing every night now. Spring :)
What’s the nature news in your neighborhood?
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