HBO’s Inland Northwest — 12.16.09

A juvenile eagle, which doesn’t yet have the coloration of a mature bald eagle, throws its wings back and its talons forward preparing to snatch a kokanee salmon from the surface of Lake Coeur d’Alene Saturday. The gathering of migrating eagles peaks in mid-December as the birds gather to gorge on spawned out kokanee that are plentiful in the lake’s Wolf Lodge Bay. Most of the migrating birds are gone by early January, heading to wintering ranges in southern states and even as far as Mexico. (Jesse Tinsley/SR)

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