[Tweeters] Eagle vs swans and an eagle with a problem

[D. Lewis]

Good morning 



With the day off my husband and I made the trip up to Fir Island. The weather was beautiful and so were the birds. We stopped to watch a group of trumpeter swans take off and land when we saw a eagle in a nearby tree.  We drove over to take a picture of the eagle and a few minutes later it took off.  We thought it just got tired of us watching it when all of a sudden it flew low behind a bunch of the swans and tried to grab one.  I had seen them look hard at snow geese before but never actually go after one.  Allthough I'm sure they do - but a huge swan!  The swan got away with all it's feathers. 



I managed to get one good picture: 



http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh152/DDLewis1/?action=view&current=eagle1-1.jpg 



After Fir Island we made our way up to Samish Flats.  We saw merlins swooping on the dunlins and a beautiful falcon sitting in the sun near the Padilla Bay  visitor center.  We drove around Samish Island and saw more eagles,  I was taking pictures of another eagle with the bay in the back gound when it's mate flew by.  I snapped a pic of it flying by and when I got home I looked closer at the picture only to notice that the eagle had a fish hook hanging from it's bill.  This is a blown up picture of the eagle head: 



http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh152/DDLewis1/?action=view&current=eaglehook.jpg 



I don't suppose there's any way of finding this eagle and removing the hook but I thought I would just let everyone know. 



Have a good day 

D Lewis 

North Bend, WA 

debsstuffatcomcast dot net 






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