Several eagles come to feed on island

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 miles
  • Wind: 25-30 knts W
  • Sky: partle cloudy
  • Water: Ripply

Boats/Visitors/Sightings

  • Just a few ecotour boats in the area today
  • Not many private boats either

Birds

  • Spotted several juvenile eagles just by the jetty today. This is quite unusual, but I suspect the newborn babies attracted them. However, when I got close, I saw one eagle feeding on an adult oystercatcher (I think, it was hard to tell because it was deformed, could have been a pigeon guillemot).

Marine mammals

  • Looks like there were some resident whales swimming past Pedder Bay yesterday, but I couldn’t get a glimpse because it was too far. There were a whole bunch of whale watching boats, and the marina mentioned it was resident whales when I called them about one of their boats.