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Old 02-12-2021, 03:16 PM
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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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Old 02-12-2021, 03:22 PM
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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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Old 02-12-2021, 04:05 PM
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Beautiful pictures!! Thank you for sharing
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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.
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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.
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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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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...
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