The annual winter congregation of bald eagles at Lake Coeur d'Alene has not yet started, according to biologists who surveyed the north end of the lake on Wednesday. For decades, the eagles have provided a popular wildlife-viewing attraction as the birds are lured to the northeast corner of the lake from mid-November into January to feast on the spawning kokanee that stack up in Wolf Lodge Bay. “No eagles at all,” said Carrie Hugo, U.S. Bureau of Land Management wildlife biologist, reporting on her first weekly eagle survey of the season. “I'd bet they are up on (Lake) Pend Oreille as I have had one report of eight eagles out on the ice”/Rich Landers, SR Outdoors blog. More here. (SR file photo by Jesse Tinsley: An eagle lands in tree along Lake Coeur d'Alene shoreline)