[Leica] Trip to L&D14 last Sunday

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

That's a fascinating sequence, Gene. Never saw that sort of thing before. 
Mind you we don't have bald eagles here in Ireland - bald photographers yes 
:-)


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Subject: [Leica] Trip to L&D14 last Sunday


> Last Sunday I was down on the Mississippi River, South of LeClaire, Iowa 
> to photograph the Bald Eagles and took this series of an Immature Bald 
> Eagle learning to fish.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0828a.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0829a.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0830a.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0831a.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0832a.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0833a.jpg.html
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> Here is a photo of the crowd on Sunday.  Quite a large crowd, over 180 
> photographers, for such a warm day, 38F, as the Eagles are not usually as 
> active on warm days.  They were actually quite active and teh shooting was 
> very good in spite of the high temperature, but the river has a large fish 
> population right now and that may be why they were out in the numbers we 
> found on Sunday, about 150 birds.  Lock & Dam 14 is one of the best Bald 
> Eagle sites in the Lower 48 to photograph these birds, as they fish fairly 
> close to the bank of the river in Iowa.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-1016756a.jpg.html
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> Comments welcome, and please view large for best detail.
>
> Gene
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