Back in business!

 You haven’t heard from me for a while, not because there are no eagles or anything to report, but because I’ve been having ‘tech’ issues. Those are hopefully now resolved or at least another method has been acquired, so let’s get caught up!

Where to begin?

With the eagles I guess and my goodness, this has been one of the best years in a while for Bald Eagles!  This guy was just one of many enjoying lunch yesterday, which was a spectacular day!

There have also been a lot of Swans. These being Trumpeter Swans. Water levels are dropping rapidly now so they are further out and harder to see, but for a while they were hanging in right close to shore like....

Like this family with 5 youngsters, in fact there are a lot of young this year, evidence that shutting everything down and eliminating travel, definitely benefited the natural world 

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For quite a while, water levels stayed much higher than normal for the time of year, that made eagle viewing difficult as there was no where for them to sit

As water levels dropped they more than made up for it!  On this day we ‘guesstimated’ 600 in the general area.

Of course it isn’t just eagles and swans, waterfowl have been pretty amazing too

Mallard of course, in large numbers, and quite a few Gadwall (4 in this picture 3 males & a female)

A lot of Common Merganser like this female busy ‘fishing’

Goldeneyes as well, like this female.  Also in the last few days large numbers of Green wing Teal have shown up as well.

Over at Harrison Bay....

It is much the same story, lots of eagles

Making use of the log booms. We mustn’t forget the smaller birds...

Flocks of Pine Siskin are seen pretty much daily.  So far they are finding lots of natural food in the native alders so haven’t started visiting feeders.

 And of course it is a rare day you don’t at least hear a Black Capped Chickadee!

So that should bring us up to date and moving forward reports will hopefully come more regularly...I’ll leave with this guy...

Who was busy eating one of the salmon left high and dry by the receding water and was not at all disturbed as i approached within about 20 feet, leashed dog in one hand and camera in the other.