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Sonja Boekhorst
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Every winter Bald Eagles draw life from dying salmon.
It’s a timeless cycle of nature. The fish guard their eggs in the home-stream gravels until their energy is spent. Their bodies float with the current into the Harrison River and on to the sand bars of Chehalis Flats and Harrison Bay. From death comes life as over 800 Eagles gather o fee don the salmon.
The Eagles begin to arrive in early November to form one of the largest concentrations of this species in North America. Watch for their silhouettes in the black cottonwoods along the river’s edge. Although a few stay to breed, most migrate in February to nesting sites along the coast and on inland lakes. Juveniles may linger in the Harrison area through march.
It takes years for an Eagle to obtain its adult plumage. Juveniles are uniformly brown with dark eyes and bill. Only the under wings show white.
As the bird matures, its eyes and bill lighten and its plumage turns a blotchy white and brown.
Finally at age 5 it develops the magnificent white-feathered head and tail of the adult.
