Bald eagles

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For the last four days I''ve seen multiple bald eagles and brown eagles on my drive to work. They are all hanging out at a lake in Dayton. I counted six bald eagles and two gold eagles yesterday on my way home from work.



I had my camera on me today.

[NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE]

go to winona, the eagles start gathering there about easter, its awesome to go see, there's hundreds of them

[Super Bleeder!!]

seeing eagles always makes me PROUD TO BE A REAL AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAN!!! YEAH!

[deadeye]

Nice pics.

I was in hopkins/slp at Taco hell on hwy 7 by knollwood and I saw one mash a duck on the creek. Pretty awesome sight in the middle of the city. On the river by my house here in bc there is a huge nest on the island north of 694. I get to see the baby ones every year when im out in the boat fishin.

[hippiekiller]

The Golden Eagles are probably just immature Bald Eagles. It takes 3 years for them to get the white on the head. There have been some reports of the Golden's moving further east, but 99% of the time they are really immature Bald Eagles. Just an FYI.

The easiest way to tell is in flight.

Cool spottings for sure. They will start breeding here soon. I have a nest right behind my house which is always pretty neat to see.



There is no white on the underbelly of a golden.



Underbelly of a immature Bald Eagle will look something like that, with varying degrees of white.

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I don't know if it was a golden eagle or not but they were brown and decent size. Out of the six Bald eagles I saw that day they were the only two brown eagles and they were hangin out by themselves about 200yds away from the other group.


It was a cool sight to see though. 1st time I've been close enough to shoot *a camera* and 1st time I've seen more than one together.


I just wish I had a real camera with me instead of my 3.2mp crap.

Originally Posted by deadeye

I was in hopkins/slp at Taco hell on hwy 7 by knollwood and I saw one mash a duck on the creek.

One year duck hunting we lost a duck to one. He was sitting in a tree across the bog all day and one of the ducks that dropped a ways out got snatched befor the dog could get him.

[cmspaz]

Originally Posted by NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE

go to winona, the eagles start gathering there about easter, its awesome to go see, there's hundreds of them

I was down in Wabasha a few weeks ago, took a few pics:

[Super Bleeder!!]

awesome pics spaz

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Nice pics Spaz! There's a lake not far from my parent's cabin in NW wisconsin that has 2 eagle families living on it. I was up there last spring and I got to see one snag a decent sized northern out of the water about 50 yards away from us. It was awesome!

[Kracka]

Spaz, you are a great photographer!

I saw a bald eagle in Maple Grove last weekend. They've really made a great comeback!

[TkrPerformance]

when I was working at a shop in brooklyn park. he was standing in the parking lot next door at the vet

[tehehodi]

i was kinda hoping to see vageen or something.....wrong bald eagle i guess

very cool pics though!

[tpunx99GSX]

Damn spaz those are some sweet pictures. what kind of camera do you have. Definitely not a camera phone.

[cmspaz]

Thanks guys. Camera's a Canon Rebel XS, those were shot with a standard 300mm telephoto.

And yeah, they really have made a comeback. You can see them in seriously odd places nowadays, that parking lot being a great example.

[4seasons69]

Nice pics. I saw one flying over rice street just north of 694 when I was on my way home from school last week.