{"id":66614,"date":"2018-12-07T03:31:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=66614"},"modified":"2018-12-07T03:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T10:31:36","slug":"adult-bald-eagle-landing-at-the-edge-of-a-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/adult-bald-eagle-landing-at-the-edge-of-a-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Bald Eagle Landing At The Edge Of A Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found some more Bald Eagle ‘gems’ lurking in my archives from 2009 that I’ve never posted before. This is one of them (at least yours truly thinks it’s a gem).<\/p>\n

In a comment on my Bald Eagle post four days ago I informed readers that I’d rediscovered over 1100 eagle photos\u00a0from 2007-2009\u00a0that I’d barely looked at since they were taken. Back then my image evaluation and culling skills were simply awful so four days ago I transferred all 1100 of those photos to my\u00a0newer computer with a much better monitor and began to slog through a new evaluation and culling process with them.<\/p>\n

I found some interesting stuff and some images I really like, including this one from February of 2009.<\/p>\n

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\"\"1\/2000, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 40D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This eagle was coming in to land in the mud at the edge of\u00a0a pond at Farmington\u00a0and\u00a0I do have vague memories of why this photo never made it to my “A-list” back then. I hate to admit it but I had been put off by the less than tack sharp vegetation in front of the bird so I never even worked up the image until last night. Silly me – today it bothers me very little if at all because\u00a0it adds to the habitat and none of it blocks any part of the bird.\u00a0I like the flight pose, the variable light on the bird producing interesting shadows that aren’t too dark and the sharpness and fine detail of the eagle.<\/p>\n

If I remember correctly a brief fight broke out between this eagle and another one immediately after it landed but I didn’t save any of those shots because both birds were partially blocked by the vegetation we see at lower right.<\/p>\n

Regarding the other “interesting stuff” I found, I’ll likely publish yet\u00a0another\u00a0Bald Eagle post in the near future if I can get it organized in my mind. It’ll be a history lesson of sorts on the evolution of Farmington Bay WMA as a Bald Eagle wintering area since 2007. The story has some interesting twists and turns that I should be able to document fairly well with some of my photos.<\/p>\n

If you’re a Bald Eagle fan I hope you’ll stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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