Eagles
 

I spend time here in VA chasing eagles, when the weather cooperates. Lots of other birds and critters too...this was at Conowingo Dam up near Havre De Grace MD.

it is a hydro-electric dam with 6 turbines. The turbines are idle much of the time, and there is a klaxon that sounds loudly a few minutes before they are spun up. At that signal, many of the eagles on the other side of the outflow take flight and snatch up dead/stunned fish that got sucked through the turbines.

There are usually a hundred photographers there when the eagles are present, and it is a cacophony of shutters clicking away when something is happening.

This was taken with a Nikon D-800, and an f2.8 400mm lens, on a Friesel U-Mount atop a Gitzo carbon fiber tripod. It was very cold that day too.

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On the Colonial Parkway in Yorktown, VA. He sat there for nearly 15 minutes and we had eye contact for a good deal of that...I won the stare down and he eventually launched off.

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Beautiful pictures!! Thank you for sharing

We go there most every winter. Entertaining to watch the eagles chase off the vultures that are always trying to steal anything they can.
Very enjoyable way to spend several hours before a late lunch at the Backfin in Port Deposit or 'up the hill' at the Old South Smokehouse. We live along a lake and have a couple of nesting pairs that are hanging around this year as the lake has not frozen. Most years they move further south.

Outstanding! :ok:

Terrific photos, and the detail is wonderful. I picked up some prints at a local art printer today of photos my wife took of eagles who nest down here, plus others of ospreys and black skimmers, which she may get into a local gallery. Very interesting to watch the interplay of ospreys and eagles too, as they sometimes battle over nesting sites.

Great photos! :thumbsup:

Beautiful pictures!

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Wow!!

Thanks for all the compliments everyone. The only thing better than photographing an eagle, is finding a pair...

I had a major Apple MacBook Pro meltdown a month ago. It sucked; all my photo files were safely stored externally, but I was using legacy editions of Lightroom and Photoshop. I knew them backward/forward/inside-out.

So, I bought the newest MacBook Air as a replacement, downloaded the current LR/PS versions, and I'm learning them all over again. Old dawg, new tricks...