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Better Late than Never, the Bald Eagle Becomes Our National Bird!
Note to readers: My main source of information for this post was a January 2025 interview that I was privileged to have with Preston Cook, the star of this story. The National Eagle Center’s Ed Hahn put me in touch with Preston for the interview. Other sources that I used include Preston’s book, “American Eagle: […]
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Remembering Bald Eagle B/O
Four miles north of Ocean Shores, Washington. During a raptor survey on June 12, 2015, we stopped to record a Bald Eagle perched atop a signpost. In a half-hearted effort to trap him (or her!) for banding, we drove by and tossed a baited snare out the window near his perch. Our snare was attached […]
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Steller’s Sea-Eagle: My Lucky Encounter with Stella!
June 23, 2024. Newfoundland, Canada. Below you see my best photo of a Steller’s Sea-Eagle, taken during a boat tour off the coast of Trinity, Newfoundland. Native to the Russian Far East, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula, this bird was most certainly out of place on the far east side of the North American continent! […]
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You Win Some, You Loose Some
April 29, 2023: Ocean Shores Muncipal Airport Coastal Raptors began monitoring the health of avian scavengers on the Pacific coast in 2011. This effort involves capturing Bald Eagles, Turkey Vultures and Common Ravens for tissue sampling ahead of lab tests for pathogen and contaminant exposure. This day we trapped a Bald Eagle with a severe […]
