Akecheta is alive!

18 May 2025

I couldn’t wait. ‘PB’ just sent me the news that Akecheta was photographed on the mainland. Thank goodness for those large blue wing tags!

We know that Channel Islands eagles go to the mainland and have found territory up the west coast as far as Washington.

Lake Casitas is near Ventura, California. This is the information from Wikipedia: “Lake Casitas is a reservoir in Ventura County, California, built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and completed in 1959.^[2] The project provides drinking water and water for irrigation.^[3][4] A secondary benefit is flood control. It was the venue for canoeing and rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Casitas Dam was constructed on Coyote Creek, two miles (3 km) before it joins the Ventura River. Santa Ana Creek and North Fork Coyote Creek also flow into the lake. The system was designed for water from the Ventura River to be diverted into a canal under specific conditions since the impounded watershed is not sufficient to fill the lake.^[5] The dam is 279 ft (85 m) creating a lake capacity of 254,000 acre⋅ft (313,000,000 m³).^[6] The dam was built as part of the Ventura River Project.”

It looks like a good place for fishing!

I hope that you are as happy as I am – over the moon with joy.

Thank you to ‘PB’ and to the lucky photographer that caught that blue and white wing tag!