Every fall when the salmon migrate up the Fraser, Harrison and Chehalis Rivers bald eagles congregate in big numbers for the feast.
When conditions are mild enough for us human fliers to get in the air we can soar with the birds.
At other times, when the outflow winds blow from the east, we can only watch from the ground or from the water, as I did when I paddled my kayak up the river (keeping to the main channel in order to not disturb the eagles in the mud flats).
About 100 eagles just in this picture soaring in the outflow wind behind Mt. Woodside. In 2010 the
count was > 7000 birds and this year this record was supposedly broken. An amazing spectacle of nature.
