Saturday, February 7, 2009

Bald Eagles

My family went up to Farmington Bay for the State of Utah's Department of Wildlife Resources Bald Eagle Day. As we pulled in we saw two sitting in a tree.
Driving down further we came to see where most people stopped and were viewing approximately 20 on the ice.
We saw some in flight.
The last picture is probably my favorite. As we were leaving we noticed one in flight and it landed on the tree where the two we saw first were sitting. While it is hard to see on this small post, the two are looking at the one landing and they don't appear too happy to have a visitor.I was shooting my D300 with Nikon's 18-200, maxed at 200mm. The pictures posted are cropped quite a bit. There were quite a few 400mm and 500mm f/2.8 lens out there. We saw a few rental cars with some serious equipment and not all of it was Canon. There were a few Nikonians out there. It would be interesting to know who the pros were shooting for.

We only spent an hour; however, it was quite fun and very impressive. To see the eagles next to ducks, seagulls and geese you can appreciate the size of these big birds.

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