The annual herring run in Mud Bay started in earnest Sunday, with residents using canoes, driftnets and throw nets to haul in buckets full of the silvery fish. As many as 10 eagles and flocks of hundreds of gulls were there feasting on the bounty. Eulachon can’t be far behind.

Folks in Klukwan and out Mud Bay Road saw rufous hummingbirds as early as March 30. That’s early, not record breaking. Ron Horn and Kip Kermoian reported