Bald Eagle - Our National Symbol - Vol. #3

Welcome to our third thread of this series. The prior thread, Vol. #2, can still be viewed at the following link.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/924419/

Despite the cold weather predicted for tomorrow, I hope to make a trip back to my favorite site. With a lot of rain the last two days, the water will most likely be muddy. So, I don't know what to expect. In the meantime, I still have a few photos to post from my last visit on 11/29/08.

This first photo was posted on the last thread but I was playing around with my photo editing software. I thought the framing fit the theme of this entire series, i.e. - The Bald Eagle - Our National Symbol.

The following seven (7) photos is another sequence series of an immature Bald Eagle, in flight ........

Photo #1 ....

Photo #2 of this young soon-to-be adult.

Photo #3 of this series ....

Photo #4 .....

Photo #5 ....

Flawless as always. Love the framing in the first pic.

Photo #6 ....

And, Photo #7, the last of this in-flight series.

Sorry I jumped in before you finished......the pics of the immature Eagle are super!

Great job Linth!

Thanks, pelle ....

No problem, gardenpom. It happens sometimes.

Here are two more images from my last visit.

Last one for tonight .....

Wonderful!

They are just stunning Linth...I am really enjoying these threads!

Linth, they are fantastic shots of your beautiful national symbol. Thank you.

Thanks again, everyone. This past weekend I again took about 750 photos. On Saturday, the Gulls, mostly Ring-billed Gulls, were so plentiful that I had difficulty locking in focus on the Bald Eagles. Even with all of the images I took, I missed numerous opportunities.

When you all have had enough, kindly let me know ......

Here are a few images from Saturday.

A nice catch ......

Gliding across the water with his catch ......

Wings spread wide ........ he does have a fish !

Heading toward me ......

One more photo before dinner, i.e. my dinner ........ be back later !

Another ......

Nice pics!

That last one appears in several of the pics, you can pick it out by the single white feather on the back of its head

Resin

You're correct, Resin ....

Another eagle-fish combination photo.

Resin, I've saved this photo for you ...... how many Ring-billed Gulls in this photo ? I never saw so many gulls in my life and the next day (Sunday), only about 5%-10% remained. Where did they all go, and why ?

I'm trying to determine what that brown strip is on his left talons. It seems to be too defined to be a shadow.

Hello down there !!!

Flying among the sea gulls ......

A closer view .......

Beautiful shots, Linth....by the way, I counted 1,456 Gulls (just kidding).

gardenpom, my eyes actually bothered me after five hours of trying to sort out all of the movements in front of me. An eagle would suddenly appear out of nowhere and you wondered, "where did he come from ?"

Here's two adults and a juvenile sitting among the flying gulls.


Edited for spelling error ....

This message was edited Dec 18, 2008 4:02 PM

The Eagles look bewildered and maybe bothered also.

it was a little breezy and the eagles took full advantage of the wind currents. Sometimes it was difficult (or virtually impossible) to keep the focus on a fast moving eagle.

I waste no photos !!! At least the front half is better than the back half. This is what I get when he is too close and moving too fast.

Lighting wasn't too good on this one. Numerous eagles were sitting in trees right behind me but I didn't bother photographing them since the lighting was poor.

I was a little tooo close to this one, especially the way he is facing.

Fabulous shots, Linth. Seeing that many gulls must have almost taken on a surreal quality. I can't imagine anyone who is watching this thread would ever tire of seeing these fabulous birds.

I also think it's the pectoral fin, or it could be a piece of weed.

This message was edited Dec 17, 2008 7:07 PM

I think Margaret is right, it looks like a weed draping over his talons also.