OT the Eagle has landed!

omahagreg · Feb 17, 2014

Found this one late in the afternoon! Open water, Canadian Geese, I think there will be more soon! It is supposed to be warm most of the week-they LOVE the open water just iced over enough to stand on!

sd pete · Feb 17, 2014

I watch them dip fish out below the dam. The river
below the power house stays open in sub weather.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 17, 2014

Greg, you must be hangin around in the trees yeself to get that close! -nice pic - thanks!

SweetFeet · Feb 17, 2014

Fantastic!

If I've asked before, then I've forgotten...
What kind of camera do you use, Greg?

How many X's can you zoom-in? I assume one cannot get anywhere close to an Eagle - I have tried to sneak up on one a couple times and they always take off long before I get anywhere near them.

Kerry50 · Feb 17, 2014

sweet, I posted a pic of an eagle that I took a couple of weeks ago. I was on the tractor feeding and drove within 50 feet of it. Could not believe I got that close.

Greg K · Feb 17, 2014

Very nice! I watched 10 of them sitting on
the edge of the ice on the river one day.
Kind of neat to see that many at one time.

SweetFeet · Feb 17, 2014

Kerry 50,

I tried to sneak up on one eating a rabbit out back of our corn crib.

I was going around the back of the granary - but I scared a rabbit out of hiding and he ran toward the eagle. Eagle just lifted-off instantly, clutching the dead rabbit he'd been eating, like it was nothing... and flew away.

That was the closest I've ever been to a wild one.

omahagreg · Feb 17, 2014

This one today was 40' up and I was 40' back. Currently I am using a point and shoot-no interchangeable lens! It's the Canon XS50HS! I have a DSLR, but could not afford a longer lens-it's a Pentax so not readily available! Plus I found I would have the wrong lens on for the rapidly changing nature stuff I shoot! This one has a very wide angle- then goes 50X optical and 200Xs digital zoom!

Steven-Id · Feb 17, 2014

I know a man that works with injured birds. He usually has mainly hawks and owls but he got a call one time about an injured eagle. He said it was sitting out in a field on a dike. He said it was about the scariest thing he had ever done to walk up to this thing and put a burlap sack over it and then pick it up. He had it for about 6 weeks before they figured it was healthy enough to put back out on its own.
They sure are pretty birds though, awesome to watch.

Steven

sdc eastern ia. · Feb 18, 2014

A couple of teen whatever shot one and was turned
in. They are in deep dodo. South and west of Cedar
Rapids, Ia. Maybe close to JD Seller I don't know.

RESLLS · Feb 18, 2014

Omaha, Pentax dslr is a k mount lens. Check pawn shops. The lenses from my K1000 that i bought new in '77 fit. Just have to focus. The later slr's were auto focus K mounts and work too. Usually about $15 for a lens. Nice pics by the way.

omahagreg · Feb 18, 2014

Yes I know! I have a 320 with a doubler-not enough for what I try to do! Getting a massive lens with that mount is not worth it! I found a 500, but it was $800! I want a 1600 or so, for that I need to switch brands!

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