A Very Good Eagle Day

Whenever we leave the house I have all three cameras with me - they fit in one camera bag - along with extra flash cards, lots of freshly charged batteries and my tripod.  My eyes scan the trees and roadsides for birds, I let my eyes wander a bit looking for fences, or mailboxes, or rock walls - then back to the trees and sky.  On our latest trip to Lynden to find Clydesdales, I spotted a lot of eagles - some were not in a place where I could get a good shot - but others were.

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A young eagle sitting in a tree .  .  .

Another sitting on the tip top of a tree.  We backed into a parking lot so I could get a good view of this eagle.  People slowed their cars as they went past - looking to see just what I was taking pictures of.

 I've done that before, have you? I see someone stopped along the road - with a telescope or a camera and I always want to know what they are looking at.  Sometimes I find something good - sometimes I find nothing and sometimes I stop and ask what they see. One certainly doesn't want to miss an opportunity.

Farther along, almost in to town, we find this beauty.  Just sitting up in  a tree, waiting for lunch I suppose.

Closer to town, there is a tree with an eagle's nest, right over the river, but I've never seen eagles there before. And what luck - both eagles were in the tree this day.

This is a close up of the nest - taken a couple years ago -  no eagles at that time, but I had a chance to stop on the bridge and get the photo, from a slightly different angle than today's photos.

The wind is blowing the feathers of the eagle out to the left .  .  .

Closer view of the windblown eagle .  .  .  I'm talking WIND

This is the second eagle - the one sitting nearer the nest - I couldn't get as clear a shot of this one.  This is nesting season so I am assuming that the eggs have hatched and the parents are taking a little break, and perhaps fishing for lunch for the eaglets.

It was a very good eagle day.