{"id":170182,"date":"2025-11-23T08:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=170182"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:06:30","slug":"an-adult-bald-eagle-in-my-back-yard-yesterday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/23\/an-adult-bald-eagle-in-my-back-yard-yesterday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"An Adult Bald Eagle In My Back Yard Yesterday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I was making toast for breakfast when my phone rang. I almost didn’t pick up because I hate cold toast but when I saw that it was my friend and neighbor Shane Smith I relented and answered it. The first words out of his mouth were, “Are you home?” When I said yes, he said “There’s an eagle in our back yard trees!”<\/p>\n

My primary camera and lens were sitting conveniently on my kitchen table but the eagle was too close for my big lens so I retrieved my ‘baby lens’ attached to my back up camera, which was in my pickup in my garage. That was a mistake, because for some reason – every last photo I took of the eagle was soft.<\/p>\n

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This is as close as I came to getting a sharp shot.<\/p>\n

But it’s sharp enough to document what for me is an extraordinary event – a Bald Eagle in my back yard. That hasn’t happened since I took out my huge elm tree nearly six years ago. (The reason I’m late posting today is because I was hesitant to post such a mediocre photo).<\/p>\n

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I took this cell phone photo from inside my dining room (where I was when I took the first photo too) only seconds after the eagle flew off. The red rectangle marks where the eagle had been perched. It’s my neighbor’s tree but since that huge branch hangs directly over my shed, I think I can correctly say that the eagle was in my back yard.<\/p>\n

Speaking of toast, if that branch ever falls, that’s what my shed will be – toast.<\/p>\n

You can bet that I’ll be watching for the eagle to return to the tree. I’m determined to get better photos of it.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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For me, an extraordinary event. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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