Clark, his wife Chrissy and I went to the dam where all of the eagles gather. It was pretty quiet compared to last year at first, and pretty breezy. Thankfully the sun was out for a fair amount of the early morning though it clouded up a bit later. I was using one of Clark's smaller telephoto lenses. I'm going to post a first group of pictures, and hopefully Clark will put some nicer ones with more detail. I'll put up a few more pics later. This year at least we got to watch them catch and eat some fish! 
(if the colors and light look 'chilly', that's because it was!)
eagle on power tower on island in middle of river
flying directly overhead
fisherman and photographer's perch
extremely distant shot of two eagles fighting. the lower one would turn on it's back
and defend itself when the upper one would dive at it
distant eagle with fall foliage
cormorant skimming the water
adult resting very near the parking lot
clark capturing image of same adult
another adult with a fish in it's talons. also note that it's right leg has a
blue band on it, signifying that it was banded in new york state. this
bird ate here for quite a while with lots of photographers snapping
pictures. later was told that this bird was of a decent age and had been
around a while, so more used to people. another eagle that
clark tried to get a picture of with a fish was extremely leery
of people approaching and flew away very quickly
bits of fish hanging from it's beak
avian paparazzi
more later!
(if the colors and light look 'chilly', that's because it was!)
eagle on power tower on island in middle of river
flying directly overhead
fisherman and photographer's perch
extremely distant shot of two eagles fighting. the lower one would turn on it's back
and defend itself when the upper one would dive at it
distant eagle with fall foliage
cormorant skimming the water
adult resting very near the parking lot
clark capturing image of same adult
another adult with a fish in it's talons. also note that it's right leg has a
blue band on it, signifying that it was banded in new york state. this
bird ate here for quite a while with lots of photographers snapping
pictures. later was told that this bird was of a decent age and had been
around a while, so more used to people. another eagle that
clark tried to get a picture of with a fish was extremely leery
of people approaching and flew away very quickly
bits of fish hanging from it's beak
avian paparazzi
more later!
