It’s fall. Leaves are beginning to turn. Nights are getting colder. Conventional wisdom says we won’t get snow until Halloween. The fireweed says we will get it sooner. Want to place a bet?
Eaglets born in June have now fledged. See them along sandbars, foraging easy pickings of spawned-out pink salmon. The youngest have dark chocolate plumage. Age will bring increasing numbers of white feathers until they molt into the classic white head and tail of maturity.
Many birds are molting. They tend…
