With 48 hours of steady rain you would think the weather couldn’t get much worse – but you would have been wrong – this morning was the darkest, rainiest, windiest stretch of weather I’ve seen in a long time….temperatures shot up to 7 degrees (centigrade) – the warmest it has been around here in probably at least 6 weeks.
But then…even as we started our walk…the rain stopped! You can see the water levels have risen a bit – not surprising since it has even rained on the tops of the mountains…
For the second day in a row there were a number of Bald Eagles around the log bay and not a single duck in sight!
Every piling was starting to sport an eagle…most with their wings held out – drying….in fact there were more eagles out there today then I’ve seen in several weeks…I’d guesstimate at a hundred and fifty or so…
as we headed back…what is that? blue sky!!
another eagle on a piling ~ might as well toss these pictures in because no telling how much longer the eagles will be around.
There had to be at least 50 of them soaring….
and a closer look at the ‘ray of sunshine’ – of course this picture not only demonstrates how attractive a clear cut area is (said with tongue in cheek), but shows how much snow has been washed off the surrounding mountains. The forecast now calls for a cold front to move in…depending on how fast and how cold, things could get interesting if all this ‘wet’ freezes.
One last note – I did not see 1 single duck of any sort today! – not one. There was a Great Blue Heron and 4 Trumpeter Swans flew down the Harrison…but no ducks.
Perhaps the shortage of Ducks is because the Eagles are hunting for them. There was a lot of Eagle activity yesterday behind where you used to live and it seemed that they were hunting something on the ground / water ( in spite of the torrential rain). Colin
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