Christmas Bald Eagles Fishing at L&D 14

Just haven’t had 7 or 8 hours to edit all the eagles from Christmas Day.  Fishing Eagles are my favorite pose!  Talons out, tail down, death from above.  The adult Eagles almost NEVER miss the fish, the juveniles catch rate is no where close to the adults.

Classic Pose: AKA the Money Shot!PBKJ5747 Amazing what 10 minutes a little sun will do for the water color.PBKJ5958These are all from different passes. Lift OffPBKJ5715The stretch for the skies.PBKJ5816You can tell from the different water colors and lighting conditions these were 4 different passes.  They were fishing too close and I clipped wings on ever pass. Sometimes big glass is too big, but 90% of the time I love my setup or wish I had more reach!

Here is a complete fishing series from last season.  My camera shots 12 FPS, so keep in mind this all happens in less than a second!

Complete Fishing Sequence 

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Christmas Eagles Mississippi River L&D 14

Sharon (wife) stated since none of the kids were coming on Christmas and it was just the two of us home it wasn’t really Christmas.  The our big Christmas will this Saturday. She wanted to clean and always says she can get more done when I am not around.  She cast me out of the house on Christmas!  The sun was out, blue skies, and a nice steady southerly wind.  Christmas day, and everything is closed, only place I could go to spend 4 or 5 hours was the Mighty Mississippi River.  I always stop before I get to Lock & Dam 14 for a bio break and some food.  The only thing open was a gas station.  They were out of hotdogs and all pre made sandwiches.  My Christmas lunch as a bag of beef jerky and some chips. I was surprised how many other guys got kicked out or were asked to leave and were already photographing eagles.  Tons of photos to edit, but I’l start with a few that I loved the background of.  I’ll start off with some of my more patriotic Eagles.

Red White and Blue Eagles:

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Are you interested in spending a day in the field shooting next to me photographing Eagles.  Still a few choice dates open!  Send me an e-mail and we can work out the details.

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52 of 52: 2014

Week 52: American Bald Eagle, Death From Above!

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Really hard to believe that this is the last weekly photo of 2014.  This concludes 3 years straight of the weekly photo project.  I started them to force me to pick my new camera up and find creative things to photograph.  Mission accomplished, I feel like I know all my gear pretty well.  I might do another 52 week project in the future, but for now, I am going to take a little break.

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Elf On A Shelf

Climbing the Blinds with candy canes.

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I have heard kids called curtain climbers, but Elves climbing blinds?

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Elf On A Shelf

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The strung a ribbon from the top of the staircase down to the Christmas tree, and Ziplined down!

Not many days left, what will they come up with next?

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