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One handed grab. Showoff.
Same bird in both of the above, but they were both in focus, sooo......Yeah, I've been having issues with focus again. It started late last year and apparently the lens is still having some sporatic problems.
More of what I want, but still happening pretty far out on the water.
The only thing I hate about bald eagle season....convergence. Why do all of my hobbies always contain an extreme gathering of people? I need to get into knitting or something. This wasn't nearly all the cars that were at the dam. This is shot at 17mm with the entire parking lot full to the right and left of the camera too. I'm not too keen on shooting with people surrounding me. I guess it's just sort of a weird pet peeve.
The rest of the images are all from the same day. This outing was excellent, one of the best I've ever had. Other than the perfect sharp, cold weather, there were some out of towners that brought buckets full of dead fish with them. Everything worked out perfect today, even the lens.
One of the only bad things was they were all coming down for fish right out in front of us, so keeping the zoom on the birds as they would come down was starting to get a little tricky. Most of these shots were somewhere around 100-200mm.
A little late pulling the trigger on this one. The one part tht really sucked about today was the bitter cold was just killing my extremeties. I could only have my hands out of my pockets (with thin gloves so I could still operate the camera) for about 5 minutes before I couldn't move them anymore. There were literally about 100 eagles from extreme left to extreme right, so the action was nonstop. I actually missed quite a few fights and flights because it was so cold.
One of my favorites from the day. Very sharp full size too.
Juvenile coming in for some lunch. The action was NUTS. I never knew which direction to point the camera. I was afraid if I tried for one coming in for a fish, I'd miss a fight between two to my left of one coming in from overhead with a fish in its talons. It was just the right day to be out.
That fish almost looks like a crappie.
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