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Year of the Eagle

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His other books told the story of the cycle of water and chronicled life of waterfowl in the Seattle Arboretum. You can click here for more information about Year of the Eagle. My work focused on a consistently productive bald eagle nest in Kirkland, Wash., located across a large lake from Seattle.

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Northern Arapahoes Given Right to Kill Eagles for Religious Purposes

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From the Seattle PI. A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says.

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Nisqually Delta Wildlife Refuge

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This wonderful piece of birding real estate can be found 8 miles east of Olympia, and an hour’s drive south of Seattle Washington, right along the I-5 corridor. Unfortunately, while I was still living in the Seattle area, I had discovered the Nisqually Refuge to late, just weeks prior to setting sail south.

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Week four: We wrap up our stay in the US.

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The end of this rather long road trip finds us here in Puyallup, Washington which is just south of Seattle. Northern Harriers, Peregrine Falcons, American Kestrels, and a fair number of Bald Eagles all can be found on the refuge year round. I got to see several Brown Creepers in the area.

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Week 26: San juan Islands

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Such is the case when we got a call from our good friends Scott and Monica, inviting us to travel with them by sailboat up to the San Juan Islands, north of Seattle. A pair Bald Eagles were doing fly-bys over our heads , and there were Belted Kingfishers, Canada Geese , A pair of Mallards, and three Great Blue Herons.

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Birding Seattle

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As someone who has a spent a week this August on a family vacation in Seattle I think that I am eminently qualified to write a full blog post on how to bird Seattle. If you are from Seattle please feel free to skip this or, at the very least, read it charitably and then don’t be mean in the comments.

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Week three, the road goes on forever.

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We will cover nearly 3000 miles driving before we reach Seattle, and our final stop. I did manage to get a few Surf Scoters, my first Bald Eagle of the year, Pelagic Cormorants , and an unlikely pair of Western Grebes out in the middle of that rough water. Now we are on our way to Seattle, The Billy Frank Jr.

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