Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
This juvenile bald eagle landed at the top of a younger tree out my window in the middle of a wind storm. You cant tell from this but it was swinging and swaying on a 4 ft arc. You can just see his yellow talons clinching the branch for dear life. I had to take this thru the window–I wasn’t going out there–pine cones were flying in like morters!
I saw this eagle taking flight and did my best to shoot from my boat that was bobbing up and down. I could tell it had something in its talons, but I thought is was wood. It wasn’t until I was editing that I saw the beak hanging to the left and realized it was a little duck…
The light was terrible, but he was posing!
Here is a picture of the rarely seen headless bald eagle.
…Okay… I’m joking. They’re not so rare. The ones with heads have an enviable ability to rotate it around and preen their backs and wings. But they look pretty interesting while they’re preening, don’t they?
Bald eagles are hard to miss, even when they’re soaring at a high altitude. Their size is a giveaway; their broad wings can span from 5-1/2 to 8 feet. This is one of my typical “I wish I had a really big lens” shots. You get to see it because it shows a dramatic size comparison between the eagle and a seagull.