I was driving east of Lynden once to play paintball. Like two decades ago. We pull over to take a picture because there are about a dozen bald eagles eating a deer carcass just off the road in a field.
As I'm framing my shot, I notice movement in the grove of trees lining the back of the field, and that's when I realized every branch of every tree had at least one eagle perched on it. There must have been 500 at least right there in front of me.
The conservation efforts were very successful, and I don't believe they're on the endangered list anymore. There are a family of them living in the tree behind my house, jast as there was in the tree behind my house when I was growing up. They're extremely common these days.
I just fed a bald eagle a trout I caught in Benson Lake just three days ago.