{"id":93836,"date":"2021-01-17T06:13:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=93836"},"modified":"2021-01-17T06:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:13:26","slug":"adult-bald-eagle-on-the-prowl-for-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/adult-bald-eagle-on-the-prowl-for-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Bald Eagle On The Prowl For Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you’re photographing ducks on the water it’s nice to be able to just raise your lens a few degrees and take photos of a marauding Bald Eagle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/7.1, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Three days ago while photographing ducks on one of several ponds I frequent this adult Bald Eagle showed up unexpectedly. ‘He’ was obviously looking to ambush one of the ducks or coots on the pond below him.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

He circled low over the pond three times in search of some vulnerability amongst the many ducks and coots on the pond.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This photo and the previous one are consecutive shots in a burst. I’m including them both because in each of them he gave me a nice head turn with great eye contact.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/7.1, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

On one pass when he circled a little lower the sky background had a slightly funky color that may or may not have been caused by a color shift in my camera. Naturally it happened with one of my favorite flight postures of the series. If it is a color shift it would be easy to correct but for this presentation I’ve left it as it came out of the camera.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

After three passes he hadn’t spotted any vulnerability amongst the highly alert ducks below him so he disappeared to the south and all the waterfowl returned to their normal behaviors.<\/p>\n

I’m closing with this photo because out of a couple of dozen sharp shots I got of him it’s one of the few that includes even a hint of anything in the background other than blue sky – there’s a few out of focus trees at lower right to provide at least some context. Blog followers know that homogenous blue skies aren’t at the top of my list of favorite backgrounds. I don’t dislike them particularly, they just aren’t my favorite.<\/p>\n

But homogenous blue sky backgrounds or not how could I resist posting sharp flight shots of a serendipitous adult Bald Eagle.<\/p>\n

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When you’re photographing ducks on the water it’s nice to be able to just raise your lens a few degrees and take photos of a marauding Bald Eagle.<\/p>\n

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