Being an ametuer birder, I was excited of the possibility of seeing a bald eagle in the wild on my first trip to Alaska. We were driving down the Kenai, and I spotted an eagle way off in the distance. It was merely a dot in a tree. Begged the driver to stop and I put the 200mm Nikkor lense on the SLR and snapped.
Being an even *more amateur* photographer, I was so *pleased* with my little myself. Well, the sky opened up and it started to pour rain....my travel companions started to call me back into the car...I just didn't want to leave I was so excited.
As we got back on the road, we came around a bend in the road....and Voila! Eagles galore! You stand under them b/c they were interested in feeding off some dead fish and it was truly amazing. Good stuff.
If I broke any laws, I'm sorry.
Awesome shots, and thanks for sharing. There is a Seattle-to-Vancouver train that goes by a similar beach, and just about this time of year that's what you see. I caught a lot of flak from my liberal friends for suggesting that they weren't "endangered" at all but had adapted to human presence very nicely, thankyouverymuch.
Now I live on a lake in northern Idaho and I have a family of them in a tree...hmm...very close by. They're amazing creatures. Fishing birds, mostly, although there was an ad in the local post office recently for a missing Teacup Pomeranian who had gotten loose. Um...nom nom nom...
I borrowed one of these pics for my desktop background.
You see a lot of bald eagles at Baden Lake in NC. Great place to sail and then balk eagles too.