With all the rain we have been having lately, I took advantage of a break in the weather to return to the Harrison River. It was a good move as water levels have dropped and the number of eagles present was astounding!
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From the moment I arrived, until the time I left, there were eagles everywhere, with the occasional eagle gliding right over me.
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The river was full of spawning salmon, swimming and jumping, with many more dead salmon on the banks.
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At one point in the woods, I looked up to see a dead salmon stuck in branches above me. Clearly, it had been dropped by an eagle!
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On other trips, the eagles were aggressive to each other. Yesterday, when one eagle approached another, generally the standing eagle would yield its position to the new arrival. I suspect they were all very well fed, and had little desire to fight, other than to offer token resistance.
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The river also had lots of ducks including goldeneye, hooded and common mergansers, mallards and American wigeon.
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Just as I was preparing to go, four trumpeter swans landed in the water beside me. (There were hundreds further out in the water and the entire time I was there, I was “serenaded” by the whistling of eagles and the trumpeting of swans. What a day!
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