A Free Lunch
June 27th, 2015
We got some nice views of Bald Eagles during the boat tour as well. They trailed after the boat to ask for food, and the captain would obligingly toss fish out on the water for them. You had to be fast on the shutter: the retrieval was lightning-quick! One eagle came flying right up our wake after that looking for seconds. "Greedy git", Mike called it. But perhaps the first fish was for it, and the second was for its young back on the nest.
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"Kthxbye!"
We saw one more eagle when we got to the colonies, this time a young one. He was perched right on the island. He had shrewdly chosen a nook with an overhanging ledge to protect him from dive-bombing gulls (hovering just out of frame here), who, like all the other nesting birds on the island, were Not Happy to see him.
June 27th, 2015
We got some nice views of Bald Eagles during the boat tour as well. They trailed after the boat to ask for food, and the captain would obligingly toss fish out on the water for them. You had to be fast on the shutter: the retrieval was lightning-quick! One eagle came flying right up our wake after that looking for seconds. "Greedy git", Mike called it. But perhaps the first fish was for it, and the second was for its young back on the nest.
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"Kthxbye!"
We saw one more eagle when we got to the colonies, this time a young one. He was perched right on the island. He had shrewdly chosen a nook with an overhanging ledge to protect him from dive-bombing gulls (hovering just out of frame here), who, like all the other nesting birds on the island, were Not Happy to see him.
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Mike
June 27th, 2015 at 7:21 am
I like how he'd wheel around the boat for a while like a model doing a shoot, knowing that he was getting paid for this!
Funny how the birds that harass eagles for threatening their nests don't seem to have compunctions about going after others', eh?