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In flight, fly-by!

The eagle on the right is clearly the female of the pair.

Earlier in the day yesterday I saw a beautiful Red-headed Woodpecker and came home to find this sapsucker drumming in one of my trees. I was able to distinguish its distinctive drum before I saw it: http://www.xeno-canto.org/175237

Fish is hitching a ride back to the Osprey nest.

This is the first time that I have seen an Osprey at this park. Knowing that there were huge schools of goldfish/carp in this pond, as soon as I saw the Osprey soaring over the pond I got my camera. I envisioned him grabbing a bright orange fish. He did just what I had hoped for after dodging...

Four BE flyovers this morning

saw this 5+ year-old along with a 3 and four-year-old in the same tree yesterday.

Heading east, I took a right turn just before Black Point Drive and drove into a staggering number of Wood Storks, Glossy and White Ibises, Tricolored Herons, and Roseate (pronounced Rose-zee-it) Spoonbills-- the most I have ever seen up close here at Merritt Island NWR. That day I broke my own...

"Don't make me waste my energy crushing your pea-brain"-- what the mature Bald Eagle is thinking when an juvenile Herring Gull approaches with its 'deadly' pink feet.

... for our National Elk Refuge (there were over 2000 elk in this group)

I saw four Bald Eagles at this place yesterday; two mature and two immature. It was fun shooting these with our mutual friend Gophish-- tastes like chicken. :-)

What an osprey looks like after two bald eagles steal its fish.

Another Osprey unsuccessfully attempts to steal the fish.

A mature bald eagle flying in the morning sunlight.

I counted 16 Eagles in their neighborhood yesterday, which for New York is really saying something. This pair evidently have driven the pair that was here last year away from their nest and are claiming it as their own now. They have not yet laid eggs. That is the female on the right--I hope...

A perfect photo subject; not bothered by my presence in the least. I saw this guy on the way to the Teton Raptor Center where a Gyrlin was present and flying well; it is a Gyrfalcon/Pacific Race Merlin Hybrid-possible only in captivity.

Windy day, enjoyed the day.

Mature freeloading BCNH at San Diego Wild Animal Park 10-27-02. Nikon CoolPix 775 Dig Cam 6X Optical Zoom.