No Eagles....again

It has now been two weeks since I have seen the eagles. They should know how worried I get when I don't see them for awhile. The wind was gale force this afternoon, huge white caps on the south side of the floating bridge. Maybe on a day like today Ethel and Ernest hang out at the nest..... or something. One of the ospreys was swooping down to the surface of Lake Washington on the north side of the bridge, but I didn't see it catch anything. The herons were occupying the red buoys in Portage Bay again. But no eagles.

Seattle was protected by the "rain shadow" of the Olympic Mountains all day and we got almost no rain whatsoever, while areas just north and just south of the city saw a deluge. By the weekend this warm Pineapple Express will disappear and we're expecting another round of snow and ice by the weekend. Even so, the days are stretching out now, and bringing a promise of spring and then summer. Just thinking about almost 20 hours of daylight between dawn and dusk brightens my mood.....winter WILL eventually be over.