 I was on deck this morning, hanging clothes to dry from yesterday's big rain. Suddenly I heard a loud flapping of wings, belonging to large bird. I saw a bald eagle swooping right by Pino, at my eye level. I saw its features so, so well. It then flew across the bay and settled at the top of a tree. On the boat we see (and hear) them often, but they never come close. I always need to look through binoculars to make out details. Today is the closest I've been to one :). 4 comments
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 @rek What a treat. I never appreciated how huge they were until I saw one up close. It was while kayak crabbing off Lummi Island, in the Rosario Strait. I was alone, floating just outside a cove where we were camped, late in the evening and it was still. Dead still. I had been watching this one baldy circling and the fish he spotted was just 10-15 ft off the bow. The whole thing was over in 2 seconds but that bird made eye contact and stopped time. |
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