Eagles

As you probably know, Vance and I love to take pictures of the Eagles every winter. This year, we did not get out to the bird refuge as many times and we missed out on opportunities for great photos, so we settled for the trees on Pages Lane instead! It's closer to home and you are able to get much closer to the Eagles. Vance was never able to go with me, due to work and school, but the kids and I went on "Eagle Outings" a few times and got some pretty cool pics. We parked the car right below them and I mostly just took pics out the window. In all my years of living in this city and seeing the Eagles there each year, I had never seen what I saw this year. Every time I went, there were tons of people lined up on the road with their cameras and their amazing lenses getting far better pictures than I could ever get with the lense we have. I actually had to fight my way in sometimes to get a descent shot at the amazing birds. Finally one time I went, I was in no rush and it was 3 in the afternoon, instead of 5 or 6 pm when everyone was off work. I got the perfect spot and got some cool shots of them.

This guy was probably a new hatchling this year or last since his head is not white. He was still big though!

Here he is flying. I love this pic! Their wing span is so huge!

These two kept flying off and then landing back in the trees.

This is the eagle that was flying with the dark headed Eagle in the picture above. They were squealing and squawking back and forth like crazy. It was way cool!

How would you like to scratch your itch with those claws?!?! 

By the look on his face, it must feel pretty good!