Lately I’m seeing Golden Eagles more frequently than usual and a friend mentioned one soaring over her Mosier home the same day I caught this one further east, on the WA side.
Golden Eagle soaring over a field with snow not completely melted off yet.
I love conducting winter raptor surveys for East Cascades Audubon. I traverse two specific routes, counting & hopefully photographing each raptor that I encounter. Some days I have wonderful luck and other days not so much. This day in February was a good one! Many of the raptors you see on my website were found during surveys.
Bald Eagle taking off in flight. Shot at 500mm, cropped for detail.
Sometimes I can’t get the photo because they’re too far away; or in this instance, too close for my lens.
A Golden Eagle flying too close for my 500mm lens to capture, but look at that wing pattern!
I took a couple of friends on a Sunday Drive, hoping to find eagles. Most of our migrating eagles seem to have already left, but we found a good number to enjoy!
Subadult Bald Eagle near the top of a tree along the Columbia River under a beautiful blue sky.
I took a day for myself, free of responsibility. No surveys, no reports, no class, no photo editing, no site additions, no ‘to-do’s of any sort. Because the wind was blowing, there wasn’t too much to photograph, but I did spend quality time with this gorgeous subadult Bald Eagle in the Columbia River Gorge.
Subadult Bald Eagle at the top of a small fir tree with wind blowing his feathers about.