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A very nice wou
occurred to me this week --
bitds like to fly.:

Now, this may ‘riot ‘strike

you as a ’ mind-shattering
revelation but it’s rather

remarkable when you come

to think of it. After all, flying
for birds is about the same as
‘walking for us and, as we all
know. most of us will do
almost anything to avoid
moving our feet up and
down.

I began thinking about this

one Gay when I was sailing in

the Gulf and a heron crossed
by bow heading: from. the
mainland over to Vancouver
Island. Now the Gulf. is 25
miles wide. and I began
wondering what could have
got into his pointy little head
to make him fly all that way.
After all, there is as much
food on one side as the other
and there must be as many
girl herons -- or boy herons.
Furthermore, herons don’t
migrate. So why would he do
it?

It was a nice day for
sailing, and thinking, so I sat
and watched and wondered.

One thing was obvious and
that was the heron knew

where he was going. He was

flying at 150 feet on a precise

course with slow, steady
wing beats. As he passed by,
I could see his hunched
shoulders and’ that lugu-
brious expression which
herons always Have. Life

seems to be difficult for

herons but, here was. this
bird, obviously on:a joy-ride,

_ flapping across the Gulf to

see what was on.the other
side. There could be no other
explanation and I felt happy
for him - or her -- and
watched through the binocu-
lars as the figure grew
smaller and smaller and
finally. arrived on the far
side. -

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Obviously herons like to
fly.

THOUSAND VOICES

Then I thought.of the gulls
I have seen playing for hours
on the updrafts along the
cliffs. And I remembered the
night at our floating village

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when I heard a thousand

_ voices in the night above
which turned out to be gulls

' in from the sea to ride a

midnight thermal.
So gulls, too, love flying.

On another occasion, at
the head of | Howe Sound

‘during the salmon run, ! was
‘watching i2Z5 eagies sitiing
in the trees looking noble and

belching when I _ heard
another sound and, looking
up, I saw 14 eagles riding an
updraft along a ridge a
thousand feet above.

And they were singing!
NOBLE OLD PIRATES

I had never heard of eagles

singing but, there they were,

filling the evening sky with a
totally un-eagle-like whist-
‘ling song; noble old pirates
whose hearts were overflow-
ing with joy -- and quite

clearly they were joy-riding,

not. hunting, because the
salmon carcasses on which
they were feasting. were

society, most of us work -at -

everywhere in sight a thou-

sand feet below them. Since.

then, I have heard eagles

singing on other occasions
-and T am told thic

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‘unusual.

is nat
ZAwe

So this shows that eagles
like flying snough to sing
about it.

As a matter of fact, the
eagles have a. lot to sing
‘about these days because, in
a world in which so many
wild species are threatened,

te

the, West Coast eagles thrive.

My friend David Hancock,

1

- their time goofing off while

the Eagle Man, who lives on .

the beach on the Saanich

peninsula, says that the

eagles are just about as

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: diet is not: contaminated by
pesticides.’ ° :

' eagles thrive in wilderness

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numerous as they have ever
been because their salmon ©

David is an author. and
publisher who is one of the
best-informed men anywhere ©
on these magnificent birds
and, among other things, has
two as pets,. wounded birds -
he nursed back to health. He
tells me that, not only do ‘the. -

areas, but that many live in
surprisingly close contact
with humans. Half.a dozen
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Then I got thinking what a.
nice life David Hancock has,
diving on the beach, writing

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what another environmental .
friend told me about animals,
and so-called _ primitive
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we imagine that animais and —
tribal people, _in contrast,

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for survival but, in fact. the

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opposite is often true. Lions,
for example, spend most of

West Coast Indians once lead
lives devoted to leisure and
pleasure in'a way unknown

And somebody like David
Hancock has never really
worked a day i in his life.
Makes’ you wonder who’: Ss.
civilized and‘ who isn’t.

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