Bald Eagle

[Bren]

This Bald Eagle, sits a few hundred yeards outside my office window watching the colorado river. Its hard to do work watching him or her fly by the window all day long ;-)

[mjs1973]

I never get tired of seeing, and photographing Bald Eagles. Love the sharpness of the eye on both pics!

[swmdrayfan]

Bren, those are outstanding. Too bad the tree branches got in the way of the top shot. What did you use for these?
John

[dadas115]

It is always nice to be able to see and photograph eagles. So far all of my experiences have been for great distances and only for a few moments. Stray branches are always a problem in bird photography, I wonder if you would be able to clone those out that are in front of the eagle’s head in the first shot. The second shot is very nice, I hope some day to have one as nice.

Greg

[drg]

Great in-flight shot!! Forget work for the day, go photograph the Eagle's. You've got permission.

Thanks for showing us these!

[Lava Lamp]

Great in-flight shot!! Forget work for the day, go photograph the Eagle's. You've got permission.

Thanks for showing us these!

Really cool. I had only seen one wild eagle in my life and saw another not too long ago that I was able to photgraph from a distance, but nothing like this. Good job.

[Bren]

Thanks John, I used my Canon 350 digital rebel, with a lense 75x300. I have found that if I walk out down the path toward the tree the eagle will watch me but if I act like I am not paying attention to him he will sit and watch me. When I see that he is getting nervous then I start taking photos because I know he will only sit there for a few more seconds. Gotta love that continuious shots.

Greg, I have not had the time to try to clone the branches, I am hoping that I can with a little time.

This time of the year the bald eagles arrive around our area, they are pretty easy to pick out when they are in the bare trees. We have a mated pair that live about 1 mile from our town. Usually in the spring you can see the female in the nest. I would like to get a better zoom lense so I can take photos of the babies. Keeping my fingers crossed ;-)

[paulnj]

This Bald Eagle, sits a few hundred yeards outside my office window watching the colorado river. Its hard to do work watching him or her fly by the window all day long ;-)

The are great, and I love that flight image!

Just so you know.....

Atleast in NJ, EAGLE NESTS have a 1000 foot restriction on them . It is a crime to go any closer without authorization. So check your states laws before getting close to a nest ;) I have been 500 feet from a 3 week out of the nest eagle, but that was as close as I was authorized to get the document shot. Less established nesting eagles will abandon the nest if harrassed too much.

[almo]

Great shot in flight! Too bad the other was marred by all those dang limbs.