Yet another crazy weather day on Coon with big winds bringing the big birds! Strong sustained winds throughout the day with partly to heavy cloud cover and pm snow squalls. Weather -wise.. we saw it all today ! Lot's of bald Eagles in the air today and at one point we had 8 Balds in one field of view. Had some great looks at Redtails below eye level as they passed the watch site. The first 2 Golden Eagles that passed the site were both adults that were distant looks. The next 4 Goldens were all immature birds that gave awesome looks with a few of them being picked up below eye level as they were cutting into the ridge. Man.. talk about an adrenaline rush !!! Our Bird(s) of the Day selection goes to the 2 adult Bald Eagles that came flying at us thru a dark wall of clouds that were producing a snow squall up ridge. We had sunlight at our backs and these Eagles coming out of a dark background.. they looked like flashing neon signs. Stunningly beautiful and passed by very close to the watch site.
Non-raptor Observations: TV's Ravens E.bluebirds ======================================================================== Report submitted by Jim Thomson (<hawkinflight...>)
