Show Me Your Eagles...

[Lava Lamp]

These are captive birds from Grant's Farm in St. Louis (unable to return to the wild due to injuries.) Show me yours.

[Lava Lamp]

One more. For those of you who may visit St. Louis, Grant's Farm is a free zoo-like park run by the Anheuser Busch family.

[mjs1973]

All these were shot in the wild.

[mjs1973]

I think I posted the last one a long time ago.

[SmartWombat]

Not all eagles, I admit

[SmartWombat]

Oh and one last uncooperative bird

[paulnj]

Oh and one last uncooperative bird

OK....

We all know the full adult(5 yr plus) bald eagle has a white head, but.....

Smart wombat has a 4yr old bald(and a golden eating a squirrel)

mjs1973 has one image of a 3 year old bald

AND HERE IS A FIRST WINTER BALD EAGLE and a just fledged bald (2 weeks out of the nest)

Mind you the fledged image was shot with a 1D/100-400/2XTC in 101 degree july weather AT 500+FEET and cropped. It is a FEDERAL CRIME to get close to a nesting bald eagle and fledglings, but it needed to be documented .

The 1st year bald(3-4 months out of the nest) is an old image from 2002/2003 that I had in a folder on my hard drive that I never open.

90% of my bird files are not even at my house(not to mention the 30,000 slides), so I can't post any of the gazillion images of wintering eagles I've taken in the last few years.

[Lava Lamp]

Wow. I've only seen a eagle in the wild once. Didn't have my camera.

[SmartWombat]

Smart wombat has a 4yr old bald

I've been going bald longer than that

[paulnj]

You crack me up

[SmartWombat]

One day I hope to make it back to the USA (if they'll let me in) and come to one of the forum meetings.
This insistence on biometric ID is s bummer if your country doesn't have it on the passport.

[paulnj]

One day I hope to make it back to the USA (if they'll let me in) and come to one of the forum meetings.
This insistence on biometric ID is s bummer if your country doesn't have it on the passport.

Don't feel bad. My own country gave me trouble trying to GO HOME from Canada 6 years ago! I finally asked the guy if I should just apply for political asylum in Canada and if he might have my mail forwarded to his office until I get a Canadian citizenship? I stated that it was some sort of political bull that I can't come into the country that I have been a registered voter in since 18 ;) I also informed him I was writing my congressman about him holding me up for no reason beyond being tattooed, which is discrimination and against my civil liberties!

He let me go home 1 minute later

OK, back to Nature and Wildlife

[mjs1973]

Just gettin' things back on track.

[ChowChi-Ching]

These are really far from very good pictures but this was taken down in florida at the carribean gardens in 2001 with my little Kodak camera............

[paulnj]

These are really far from very good pictures but this was taken down in florida at the carribean gardens in 2001 with my little Kodak camera............

These aren't bad, just a little to bright!