today I went to the group campsite at Goldstream park to see the golden eagles in this area. I walked through the campsite into the fields there and noticed a small bird on the top of a fir tree there, a Pygmy Owl.
It sat there, silent, as I tried my best to coax it down with a lot of tooting, but it just ignored me and was content to do nothing about me.
I then hiked up from the last field, directly up the hillside through the open douglas fir and arbutus forest.
I noticed a few eagles circling around over head through the canopy, one appeared to be a golden eagle, the others were adult Balds. I could hear a call up the hill that seemed to be a barking dog, but I thought it might be a golden, I headed that direction. The call continued off and on until I reached almost the top of the ridge.
I as I looked up to the top of the ridge I startled a Bald and Golden Eagle, they took off from the ground about one hundred feet in front of me and flew down the slope towards me flanking me, and avoiding the trees and branches as they flapped by me within 50 feet. I went up the hill and discovered they were feasting on a freshly killed deer carcass. I looked around and found a Bald eagle sitting in a tree, obviously it had been gorging on the deer.
it then took off and sailed to the south.
As I returned to the field below, I looked up to where the carcass was, the golden eagle was returning to the site as well as the Bald Eagle. I will have to return to it in the next few days and see I what I can find.
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