Eagles View

[JimFox]

Out at Barr Lake in Colorado, while I was mainly shooting birds I wanted to get a few landscapes in showing the Rocky Mountains in the background.

The Eagles Nest you see has been there since like 1983 I think, you will see a Bald Eagle guarding and several other eagles in the trees around it.

This was with the Tamron 150-600mm G2 at 450mm at f8.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is a good distance to view nesting eagles if you want them there next year. Nice image.

 

[Brian]

Nice image. I didn't know about the history of the nests. That's pretty neat. The number of nests out there is kinda crazy.

 

[AlanLichty]

As a known nest is someone tracking which eagles are using the nest? Is it a pair that returns or random inhabitants year to year?

 

[JimFox]

As a known nest is someone tracking which eagles are using the nest? Is it a pair that returns or random inhabitants year to year?

Yep, this is a real nature center and it was Bald Eagle weekend with lots of extra exhibits and stuff. So according to volunteers out at the gazebo I shot this from, it is the same pair that uses it each year. And also one of the pair is always there guarding the nest against encroaching eagles.

 

[JimFox]

Nice image. I didn't know about the history of the nests. That's pretty neat. The number of nests out there is kinda crazy.

Thanks Brian, yeah there is a crazy amount of nests out there. It was really fun to see.

 

[JimFox]

This is a good distance to view nesting eagles if you want them there next year. Nice image.

Thanks Ben. This looked to be a small island out in the lake, so that is going to help keeping people at a distance from that one.

 

[lionking]

I like this painting like abstract capture.