Canon 100-400 IS Mark ii | Kent Jarrett Photography

Today I headed back to Lock and Dam 14 on the Mississippi River. Today was my local photo club’s Eagle Outing. I knew I was there mostly to guide and pay it forward. There was a total of 23 Photographers from our We Click Photo Club. The club even rented a pair of 15-600’s for the people to share. I believe a good time was had by most of them.

Snow was in the forecast, clouds and tougher lighting and warmer temps meant less eagle activity. However, I was pleasantly surprised that I took 681 photos and have 116 keepers. That is a pretty good “keeper” rate. Especially for only being the third day on the new combination in my hands.

All shots in this post are from the Canon 7D mkii + Canon 100-400 mkii

Study the eye in the eagle below, you can see her Nictitating eyelid

Money Shot: Classic Fishing Pose

What do you think so far?

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Kent

When I first got to my Eagles, the skies were blue. I started off with the Canon 7D Mark ii and Canon 100-400 mark ii hand held, and the Canon 1DX + 500 on my gimbal.

The Canon 7D Mark ii is a little slower to grab focus in on the bird in flight, but tracks WAY better than my old Canon 7D’s (I had 2).

I then switched bodies and lenses, so of course the light condition had changed by then. Light fell apart around 1 when clouds rolled in. Heavy cloud cover until 3:30,,, so the best part of the day was crap.

7D Mark ii + 100-400 mark ii