Hi everybody,

This past Monday we initiated our field season at Patuxent and 
I am currently working down at Blackwater NWR for the next few 
weeks. Today, while driving down Maple Dam road about 3/4ths of
a mile north of the Blackwateer River bridge, we saw and counted
64 Bald Eagles in a very short stretch of about 1/8th of a mile 
of the road!  They were all in the Loblolly Pines on the north 
side of the road and about 75-80% were young birds (dark plumaged).  Although I have seen dozens of BAEA's at Blackwater before, I have
never seen this many in such a small area.  While out in the marsh,
I found a few whole dead Carp in the more open areas of water, and 
wondered if this might explain the concentration of eagles that were
not that far from here.

Peter Osenton
Jessup, Md. [AA Co.]