Bird Watching: Bald Eagle Pictures, 1 by Grasmussen

Grasmussen wrote:
The secret on cropping - My new Panasonic Lumix camera is shooting @10.1 mega pixels. The higher the pixel number the more the picture can be cropped, and still be clear and sharp. Higher pixel number is just as valuable as a longer telephoto lens! But, I re-size images to 640 x 480 before uploading. Because, an uncropped shot will take a full seven (7) minutes to up load, if it isn't re-sized.

This is the same image, as the last one above, before it was cropped.

Resin confirmed my conclusion on the birds age. The black on the tail wasn't noticeable, until I was at home looking at the pictures.

While fish are the primary food of Bald Eagles, they will feed on small mammals, particularly Snowshoe Hare. The Hares are white in the winter, and the Eagles sometime take cats and small dogs, particularly white ones. So, I do not let my white cat out at this time of the year, when food is scarce.