dogzilla

Here's a few of the pictures I got yesterday of eagles in eastern Pennsylvania, near the Delaware River. These aren't the greatest pictures since it was a cloudy day and the eagles were pretty far away, but given the conditions, I'm happy. These are all 100% crops from the originals.









This is the one I like the best. I don't know how fast the eagle was flying, but the motion blur in the background is impressive.



All taken with a 70-200 F2.8L lens and 2x extender at or near 400mm limit, F5.6 aperture, so focus isn't really sharp.

These, from last year, when I was able to get close to the eagles, are better.

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...ghlight=eagles

maleficent

the one of him in flight is amazing... they are such magnificent creatures...

thanks for sharing those...

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amonkie

Aftering seeing an eagle in the wild in person earlier last year, I have a better measure of their enormous size ... these are just simply amazing.

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troit

Both sets are beautiful. I was in Africa over the summer and there is nothing quite like seeing enormous birds of prey in action.

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Slippery Slope

They're all great but that last one
is absolutely stunning! Thanks for sharing.

alpha phi

Fantastic pictures!
thank you so much for posting these.

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bookiebye

Great pics...

How common are these birds in this area?

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dogzilla

Eagles aren't very common around here. There's supposed to be some eagles that live on the Hudson River, but the only time I've ever seen any is one week when it was about 20 below zero and everything except one waterfall was frozen. They are a bit more common along the Delaware River, where I took these pictures. There's more in the winter when they migrate from somewhere north, but there are a few that are here permanently. I saw maybe 8 or 10 eagles the day I got these pictures.

bobby

swell pics!!!!!!!!!!!....have about 20 eagle that live in the trees around here...sort of noisy but very cool to watch them sail and fish!!! xoxoxoo

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little_tippler

beautiful pictures...pretty amazing.

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