I’ve mentioned before that larger buteos often signal imminent takeoff with one or more of four behaviors. This bird gave me three of the four so I’d have had to be asleep to have missed the takeoff. (5 photos)
Including some of the last bare ground I’ll see for a while. Probably a long while. (2 photos)
Serious aerial combat or more light-hearted play? In this case I strongly suspect the former. (3 photos)
From the sublime to the profane in not much more than the blink of an eye. (3 photos)
Plus yesterday I got a single photo of the rarest bird I’ve ever photographed. (3 photos)
Yesterday an old problem reared its ugly head again. A problem I thought I’d solved. (2 photos)
Yesterday I finally got out on another bona fide bird photography trip. It had been a long while so it really felt good, despite having an unexpected and hair-raising adventure near the end of my trip. (2 photos)
And meet Ashley Kijowski, the new Director of the Eccles Wildlife Education Center.
I’ve posted three other photos of this bird in the past but I think this one also deserves to be seen. After all, I don’t get many opportunities with Golden Eagles, especially in flight, in good light and reasonably close.
