Successful Eaglefestival

Well the main weekend of this years Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival is over and done with and if success is measured by the number of people attending, then this must have been the most successful yet....

at our site alone we had just under two thousand people over the two days.  

That high water that we still had as late as Friday, suddenly dropped like someone had pulled the plug in a bathtub.....

Not sure how well the habitat held up under the onslaught of people.  Fortunately temperatures remained cool so hopefully the ground was frozen enough to have not turned into a quagmire.

Haven't heard the official count for today but yesterday's was 493 Bald Eagles and 43  Swans....far less than normal but numbers of both seem to be climbing daily...

they just look like fly specks in this picture but there was a kettle of at least 50 Bald Eagles way up high around noon today....

and Trumpeter Swans continued to arrive.  The next few weeks should be interesting around here!