Bird Watching: Bald Eagle - Our National Symbol - Vol. #6, 1 by linthicum

linthicum wrote:
I often remember the elation when my wife and I saw our first Bald Eagle just a few years ago. It's hard to believe that this time of the year I now see more eagles than I see Northern Cardinals or Blue Jays. On Sunday, I had the occasion to spend some quality time with a local Endangered Species Biologist. He is active in the local area with the monitoring of the Bald Eagle. Here's a gentleman that climbs the trees to bring the eaglet back down to the ground to be tagged, take blood samples, weigh, etc. and then return the eaglet to the nest. He gets to hold them. As we were talking, I was impressed with HIS excitement in watching and photographing the eagles around us. One would have thought it was all in a day's work for him, but no, he too was thrilled with the eagle activity.

During the course of photographing the Bald Eagle, I'm prone to making a lot of mistakes. I even take some photos with no eagle in the image ? Sometimes you can still salvage a photo and make something out of nothing. Here is an example of a recent shot . What you see is what I got. Of course, I added a few enhancements to make the photo interesting.

Here is a link to the previous thread for anyone interested .......

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1059961/