These pictures are from the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge in Sequim, WA. I've spent the past couple of weekends out there walking the beach and photographing birds. The vast flocks of the spring migration haven't yet arrived (and I don't blame them, it's been cold!) but there are still some pretty neat things to see. The highlight form me has definitely been the bald eagles. At any given time there are probably a half dozen of them, mostly juveniles, on the Spit. The juveniles appear even larger than the adults with their extra-long feathers (I once read that a juvenile eagle's flight feathers are about 15% longer than those of an adult, perhaps to assist the inexperienced flyers). They seem to like riding the breezes blowing inland off the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and they'll
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