June 15th, 2020
We will start our Feathered Friends post with this mornings outing. We decided to do an early morning drive this Monday. Yesterday, as you will see was a great bird day, so we wanted to see if we could see any at the sanctuary. There were a lot of Sandhill Cranes out and about this morning, this is the better of all the shots I got. It was nice to see more than one or two in one frame.
Okay, now for the Sunday afternoon drive and picnic snack, down to the cannery after an early afternoon outing. I am glad we got hungry, it had been awhile for stopping at the cannery to see what birds were hanging out.
I am pretty sure this is a fledgling eagle. It could be an immature young Golden Eagle, but I believe it was a fledgling Bald Eagle, as you will see below these ones.
He/she was just kind of hanging in the water. There were two of them, one took off shortly after we arrived, this one seemed to be intent on hunting frog legs or what ever he/she could get from the water.
Most of the time he/she was just hoping/walking along the water, but it did decide to put on a little wing show, kind like he/she was looking right at me and saying "See how BIG my wings are". It was kind of nice of her/him to do that.
Okay now why I think and lean more toward it being a Bald Eagle fledgling and not an immature Golden Eagle. You may or may not recall the photos we captured of the Bald Eagle in a tree, (the only tree), a few weeks back. We did not even see or notice him today until we turned around and were getting ready to leave.
I am lucky it did not decide to swoop down on me when I walked over close to the water to get a better shot of the young eagle. I was slower than my wife with my camera, but did manage to get some real nice shots.
Low flight over the grasses:
He is just a couple of feet above the ground.
Destination in site prepare for flare out,
Air braking procedure in effect, touch down in t-minus 3 seconds.
"Ha...bet ya didn't think I would make it"
And we have touch down.
It was a very nice picnic stop on Sunday, really made for a fun day, the young one in the water, and the grown one just having some fun flight time. That concludes my Feathered Friends post, Hope to see some of the others that are posted this week.
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All photographs were taken by me on Sunday the fourteenth of June and on Monday the fifteenth of June.
Wow! Love those eagle shots!
It was a full stop, grab the camera and clickity clickity click kind of moment. I was real happy to get him flared for landing and that it was mostly in focus.
Aww so many nice looking eagles, maybe they'll come to IL for winter.
I don't think they really migrate from Alaska, we get to keep them year round.
Ah I see, probably Canadian bald eagles are the ones flying down towards me. Maybe the sandhill cranes in Alaska migrate down to Arizona.
Now the Sandhill cranes do migrate, I am not sure where to but when it gets cold they leave. I think some of the bald Eagles migrate, but not very many we have them all year round, It is so cool to see them sitting in frozen trees in the winter.
fabulous shots of the eagle and his braking. Nice to see the cranes. I didn’t know they came North to Alaska.
The Sandhill cranes are hard to get good in focus pictures of for some reason, I was really hoping they would be more sharp since their wetland area is all green, but it was not the case. I am going to keep trying though. We used to see a lot of Canadian geese in the wetlands, but so far a strike out on them this year.
A fantastic lunch date, I would say! You can hardly ask for better entertainment. You got some wonderful shots. That one with the wings spread is amazing!
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Thank you Melinda for the recommend to the Pix peeps. It was great seeing the young one out there, just like a typical kid, a puddle of water and they had to splish and splash eventually.
Learning by experience and having fun while he's at it! Hope you get lots of new exposure from the re-hives!
I am sure I did get some new eyes on the post.
Thank you for the resteem.
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And you can thank @melinda010100, she made me aware of your feed 😉
Glad you had time to stop by and check out these great photos from up in Alaska, Pix!
Rest assured I will.
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Very cool photos, specially the low flight eagle, @bashadow. Keep it up!
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