Hunting For Dinner
We saw this Red-tailed Hawk looking for her dinner one day last week. Such a beautiful bird. It was the first hawk we have seen in a couple weeks.
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We spent some time hiking at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park one day this week. We have been there many times, but I don’t think we have ever seen so many Great Blue Heron’s. I’ll share a few of those photos soon, but today I wanted to share these eagle photos.
We begin our day by hiking at Windy Point. It is one of our favorte spots, and it is considered a good place for birding. My experience echos this. Over the past 3 summers, we have stopped at this location several times, and have seen a number of beautiful birds. It’s never very busy either, so its perfect.
After we hiked to the end of the point and back, we saw these two juvenile bald eagles in a nearby tree. I shot the individual photos, and Teresa captured them both in the 3rd photograph. We almost missed them but stayed put long enough for us to capture a few great photos.
The next two photos were captured as they flew away.
We saw one adult Bald Eagle, but I missed that photo opportunity.
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I took this photo a couple weeks back. I am still trying to get a good photo of this Bald Eagle but getting the camera to Focus at this distance continues to be a challenge. The tree where she is located is about a football field away, and focusing on her in this tree continues to be tough. This shot is not too bad .. just not up to my expecations.
She is keeping an eye on the nest where she has two babies. I thought there was three but I can confirm two now. I guess she needed a break from the children. At this stage, they eat and grow .. a lot.
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We were driving between a couple of our favotite winter hiking sites when we spotted this large bird flying overhead. It took me a few minutes to identify it as a juvenile Bald Eagle. They don’t get the white head until they are about 4 years old. The local couple that nest near our home have had 5 young eaglets over the last three years. I am not sure this is one of those, but it very exciting to see her flying overhead.
The parent eagles are nesting now (as you can make out in the second photo). Yes, that is a full size eagle on that nest.
The final photo is one of the parents in a tree near the nest. The mate is in the nest.
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I have been taking photos of these two eagles for a couple years. They have a nest near where this one was hanging out last week.
It’s not a great photo (very long shot), The cropped photo is not too bad but not great.
We will have eggs soon, and then eaglets! I try to get close enough to check in frequently, but never closer than where I was when I took this photo. It’s a very safe distance for these beautiful creatures.
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