{"id":133212,"date":"2023-04-01T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=133212"},"modified":"2023-04-01T05:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T11:59:22","slug":"bald-eagle-in-flight-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/01\/bald-eagle-in-flight-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald Eagle In Flight Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flying low over the sagebrush and snow.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Readers will recall that a month ago I came across a couple of Bald Eagles feeding on a presumed carcass that I couldn’t see and back then I posted several photos of one of them, This is the same bird, but all five of these photos are new to my blog. They’re posted in the order they were taken but there are some skips.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

In this series “she” was flying toward the carcass so she was hugging the ground in flight.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Curled primaries always get my attention and here we have lots of them, on both wings.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

In this shot the top of her head and neck is in shadow but I like the wing position.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

It may look like some of these photos need rotation to make them level but that’s really not the case. She was flying over low, rolling hills so the angle of the snow lines varied considerably from shot to shot.<\/p>\n

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After a couple of months of consistently dreary, snowy weather I’m finally beginning to feel optimistic about our forecast and future shooting conditions regarding light. For the first time in many weeks I’m seeing some “mostly sunny” days in our long term forecast, beginning next week.<\/p>\n

I’ve lived in northern Utah full time for 56 years and without question this has been the snowiest, dreariest and most depressing winter of them all.<\/p>\n

It isn’t even a horse race.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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To give you an idea of how much snow we’ve had, yesterday Alta Ski Resort reported having had over 800″ of snow this winter – a new record. I live in Murray, 23 miles from Alta.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Flying low over the sagebrush and snow. (5 photos)<\/p>\n

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