Eagles at El Hondo

Saturday morning of 10th December was a little misty at first before the sun was able to burn it off and not helped by only the faintest of breezes. It was a great morning in the sun. I spent the first hour on the boardwalk and there I was able to watch a perched and flying Spotted Eagle and again when it perched in the far line of trees. While searching for it after it had flown I found on a pylon, I believe, a Golden Eagle and in a tree very close by a juvenile Bonelli's Eagle. These two could have been the two birds seen last week when it was said that it was a juvenile Golden. However that was the thinking with distance to be taken into consideration. Also an Osprey was perched on the mast and eight Grey Herons standing in the marsh. Add to that flying Booted Eagles and Marsh Harriers. The water levels are increasing and the boardwalk could have water even closer by. I hope that the rest of the winter is as good.