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Bald Eagle Great Blue Heron confrontation - Images by Ed Book©2011 Ed Book

This heron must have found a sweet, or rather fishy spot as none of the other herons along the shore were being harassed but even when two ( Read more... )

Flying Bald Eagle at the Hood Canal of Puget Sound

©2011 Ed Book

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Great Blue Heron and Bald Eagle at the Hood Canal of Puget Sound

©2011 Ed Book

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 So the fish couldn't find it.

or?


Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
in a
Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
along the Hood Canal of Puget Sound©2011 Ed Book

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 I wonder what this mature eagle had to say to the group.

I watched as a mature bald eagle lost a fish to another eagle while in flight.  Then, I heard the victim screeching in typical eagle discourse and then watched six eagles land along the shore with the muggee in the center.  This eagle vocalized a while and then the others watched as it flew ( Read more... )

 We've been having a few sunny clear days lately and I've spent a couple of them, when the tide was out, down the hill where Big Beef Creek flows into the Hood Canal.  The tide flats are broad there and covered by oyster beds.  These very rough textured beds make for lots places where small fish get trapped in shallow pools or to get tangled in ( Read more... )

Adult Bald Eagle teaches its offspring how to bathe - Big Beef Creek at the Hood Canal of Puget Sound

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see the sequence of the parent Bald Eagle teaching its offspring how to take a birdbath here...

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Bald Eagle dances on the beach along Puget Sound's Hood Canal at the Big Beef Creek estuary
©2010 Ed Book

Watch the birds enough and you'll see more than you expected.

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Bald Eagle strikes the water and misses in a fishing venture in Hood Canal
Kitsap Peninsula, Puget Sound, Washington©2010 Ed Book

If you caught something every time you went fishing it would instead be called "catching".  This bird was fishing along the shore and as an immature, was unsuccessful in catching much more often than the adults.  Had he/ ( Read more... )

Bald Eagle parent and two offspring flight practice
at the mouth of Big Beef Creek on Hood Canal
Kitsap peninsula -  part of Puget Sound
©2010 Ed BookThese young eagles hung out near their parent between flights along the shore, looking for small fish trapped in the oyster beds as the tide retreated.  Their flights were obviously clumsy and largely ( Read more... )