During the school year I usually walk to UAS twice a week in the afternoon. It’s interesting to observe the changes, especially as the season turns to spring. The Channel boat harbors have boats in town for the Herring Sac Roe fishery tied up two and three deep to the transient floats. Long-line season starts a week or two prior, and the gulls are feasting on the effluent from the fish processing plants. Bald Eagles line the shoreline keeping an eye out for opportunities to eat, but it seems they are especially watching for the first herring spawning when the fish will be abundant close to the surface and relatively easy to feast on.
Many extra boats are in town tied up two and three deep to the transient floats at the harbors. They are waiting for the herring fishery to begin.
Scaups are a regular visitor to The Channel during the winter season - especially when Swan Lake is frozen.
The outflow for Seafood Producers Coop bubbles up where all the gulls have gathered to feed on scraps from the waste stream.
This Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) was perched in a Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) overlooking the water, watching for opportunities to eat.
This Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) was perched in a Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) overlooking the water, watching for opportunities to eat.