Whistler Bc .

Most of the bald eagles in the Sea to Sky corridor tend to congregate around Brackendale, but these days, you may have noticed the odd colourful eagle hanging out around Whistler.

Stephen Miller is the president and CEO of the B.C. Lions Society For Children with Disabilities, which includes Easter Seals and runs the Easter Seals camps in Squamish, Winfield and Shawnigan Lake.

Miller is also the man in charge of the Eagles in the City program, an annual fundraising event that supports children with disabilities. It was inspired by a similar artistic project launched in Zurich, Switzerland years ago.

This year, because orcas com

e from the water, and the spirit bears were on land, the third in the trilogy must be out of the sky, so we decided on Eagles in the City," Miller said.

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

BELCHERTOWN - Ellen M. Majka was inside her home on Prescott Hill when she saw a bald eagle swoop down into her neighbor's yard.

It was the first time she saw a bald eagle in the neighborhood.

But even more surprising was what she saw in its talons when it flew back up - a black cat

According to eagle experts, a bald eagle capturing a cat is not impossible, but highly unusual

While the main diet of bald eagles is fish, Davis said they are opportunistic and will eat squirrels, turtles, even Canada geese. They are also to feast on animal carcasses, including deer

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A French falconer will try to become the first man to paraglide across the Channel later this month – and the bald eagle he taught to fly will soar alongside him.

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Lions-sponsored sculpture becomes centrepiece of Comox Town Circle

  A very special bald eagle has landed right in the heart of Comox - and has decided to settle there for most of the next ten months.

The bird in question is a sculpture unveiled Wednesday as the new centrepiece of the Town Circle on Comox Avenue.

It is one of 130 similar eagles that are appearing all over British Columbia as part of a B.C. Lions fundraising initiative. Another has already touched down outside Comox Valley Art Gallery in Courtenay.

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An endangered Vancouver Island Marmot has been captured in the Alberni Valley after residents spotted it at a nursery on Ship Creek Road.

Three Harris hawks and a handler are working to keep nuisance birds such as gulls and crows from calling the Salmon Arm Landfill home and potentially interfering with air traffic.

The Columbia Shuswap Regional District has signed a three-year bird-management contract with Raptor Ranch Inc. of Abbotsford.

The centre is part of a network of rehabilitators, falconers, vets and environmentalists that specializes in non-kill, non-chemical bird control.

According to a Raptor Ranch website, handlers are trained falconers and the centre has developed procedures that are more public friendly and safer for the predatory birds and the prey birds.

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The whoop-whoop-whoop of the helicopter announces the arrival of the 20-storey blade.

Gleaming in the early morning sun, the massive blade was one of three delivered to the top of Grouse Mountain on Friday, where they'll be pieced together to become Vancouver's first wind turbine.

During an environmental study of the mountain, Grouse discovered seven species of bats on its slopes. Grouse Mountain president Stuart McLaughlin told district councillors he had plans to hire two experts to monitor how bats and birds are affected by the new turbine.

Plans to study impacts on wildlife are still in place, Mbaho says.

"We already have experts (working with) our (wildlife) refuges. They will also work with third party consultants," he said.

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