New! Salmon and Eagle Spotting

Dick's friend, Megan, of SPAWN, reports that salmon which had been hanging out down by Tomales Bay may be moving upstream. At least one chinook salmon was seen near Devil's Gulch in Samuel P. Taylor State Park. Rains over the last day and during the coming week may bring more fish to spawning areas in West Marin. (Perhaps we'll be able to reschedule the "fish walk" we had planned for early December to a new date in early January; if you just can't wait to go on a tour with SPAWN, you can click here to sign up on-line for one of its creekwalks (Saturday/Sunday from through January 18th).

Remember that bald eagle (they are big --- here's Dick's wife, Cindy, at a raptor center in Sitka, Alaska, spreading her "wings" to match those of an eagle) we saw chasing on osprey up at the Lake Lagunitas parking lot earlier this year? He (or she) may be back. Yesterday, the Marin I-J reported that a bald eagle was spotted near Bon Tempe (why didn't we see it on our Tuesday hike?) --- click here to read the story.