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These images of our national bird are not particularly outstanding, but what was outstanding
was the location at which I observed them. In January of 2006, on a social visit to Seattle, Washington,
I spent a very rainy day birding the Skagit and Samish River deltas in the northwestern corner of the state.
The highlight of the day was the sighting of my first Snowy Owls, but a close second was the remarkable abundance of
Bald Eagles. As I drove through the area I often saw a dozen or so eagles perched in an individual tree, and on the Skagit
Flats they sat in the fields, scavenging the caracasses of dead waterfowl. I filmed the adult pictured below as I drove into
the Hayton Preserve at Fir Island, near the mouth of the Skagit River.
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