Just checked fresh pics from this afternoon and I GOT him!!! (grin) This adult bald eagle was west of Missoula, MT about 1/4 mile ahead of us upside Hwy 93 next to, I believe, the Clark Fork River near Alberton. I *love* me some fast shutter speeds!!! We were hauling it at about 80 with great weather & no company on the road when I got this pic! I can hardly believe I got the shot even at 1/640.
I just think it's amazing you had such a shot at something I could never see here my entire life. Thanks for the humbling picture, I also saved it for pawpaw who is a local bird watcher. Thanks~
Nice shot snakeadelic!
Good shot snake! Congratulations!
That's the way I felt when I got my first Bald Eagle pic. Since then I have taken a few more, but the first is special. Congrats!
Congratulations on your sighting. It's always exciting when you are able to see these magnificent birds.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Awesome that you able to see it AND get a shot of it! I would be shaking too!
Well done...congrats!
Gardenpom, it's actually not my first photo of a baldie; I got one just before Christmas as it cruised past the migrating geese, and several young'uns in the last month or so...just never knew I *could* get the camera up fast enough for this!
In more recent news, it turns out that my hopes from yesterday weren't totally unfounded: I did get a pic of a chickadee at a range of half a city block. I'm sure eventually I'll move up to a camera with better detail at that range someday when I can afford it, but that's still a heck of a ways to be getting a focus on such a tiny fella! The attached image is cropped from a 2000 x 1500 reduction of a 3264 x 2448 original.
No matter what the crop is, you're enjoying your bird sightings and sharing the happy news with us.
