[Leica] Eagles are back

[Nathan Wajsman]

Awesome creatures! All your photos are great, but my favourites are the first and last.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain
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> On 9 Apr 2019, at 19:47, Howard Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
> 
> Actually they never went away but in the winter storms the deck of the landing dock at Otter Bay was undermined. Until repairs were recently done
> we couldn’t get out on the deck to see or feed the eagles.They have waited patiently for us to return and now that we have their cafeteria is again open.
> 
> I took 607 pictures in about an hour and the birds put on a spectacular show - chasing the seagulls away from “their” food.All taken with the Nikon D500 and Nikon 300mm F4.0 PF.
> In my experience the best combo for birds in flight on the market today!!
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6165C.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6165C.jpg.html>
> 
> The eagle trailing its wing in the water. I love how they do this - their flight computer gauging the effect of wing in water effortlessly.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DDSC_5963.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DDSC_5963.jpg.html>
> 
> Coming in to land on the dock. It was a cloudy dull day and the light was just right for no blown out highlights.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6415c.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6415c.jpg.html>
> 
> Rounding on the hungry gulls.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6420C.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6420C.jpg.html>
> 
> Again after the gulls.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/Landingclawsout.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/Landingclawsout.jpg.html>
> 
> and coming into land one more time.
> 
> I like the 300mmPF for this work as it allows for more space around the bird - easier to follow - and with enough pixels in the D500
> to crop a bit if necessary. My 200 - 500 VR zoom at 500 is too hard to frame and follow a busy bird. And there is never enough time
> to adjust the zoom focal length in the heat of battle.
> 
> Please view large if you like. C&C always welcome, of course.
> 
> Howard
> 
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