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On the 11th we went over to visit a nesting
colony of crows on a small island but all
we found was as shy old raven sneaking
around some torn up deserted nests; the
crows had left. Have over we saw 7
bald eagles sitting on some dead trees that
stood out on a point. They were evidently
waiting for some thing in the straits.
A flock of loons were evidently chasing
a school of herring and must have driven
the fish to the surface. All at once one of the
eagles swooped down caught a fish, let out
a shrill scream, and returned to his perch.
Within 3 minutes there were eagles coming
in from every direction. I counted 15 at once
and there were more coming. After a few
minutes everything was calm and quiet.
The eagles returned to their perches and the
loons went on fishing.
Yesterday during the storm Mr. Littlejohn
went out and got a shot at a large flock of
waders. He got 7 surf birds and 3 or 4
Black turnstones. There must have
been at least 150 surf birds in the
flock. 5 out of the 7 secured were males.