I was on my way from church today with my family and we saw this huge bird in the tree it was just a couple hundred feet from our home. So I rushed home grabbed my camera and came back and got a couple of pictures. It was big enough that I was actually questioning whether it was a Juvenile Bald Eagle or not I thought maybe a Golden Eagle. Then I went home and looked at one of the last pictures I took as it was flying away, definitely a Bald Eagle. Although I must say this was the biggest Bald Eagle that I have ever seen.
Bald Eagle Juvy, 03-06-2011, Rexburg, ID. Canon T2i, f/5.6, 1/320 sec. 500mm.
Bald Eagle Juvy, 03-06-2011, Rexburg, ID. Canon T2i, f/5.6, 1/320 sec. 500mm.
The color in the tail feathers is what clued me into the fact of it being a Bald Eagle.
Bald Eagle Juvy, 03-06-2011, Rexburg, ID. Canon T2i, f/5.6, 1/320 sec. 500mm.
As you can tell I was not ready for it to start flying away I did get a few more shots after this one but I was shooting into the sun so they did not come out.
Something else that I did to make sure that I was right on the identification of this bird and that I use on other birds is whatbird.com. In the forums you can post a picture of a bird and have it answered in just a couple of minutes. It is great resource when you are stuck on that bird.
Another bird that I used whatbird.com on is the Townsend’s Solitaire pictured below. I am fairly new to birding so a lot of time when I come across a bird that I only see for seconds and am lucky enough to get a snap shot of I cant quite figure out what bird it is. This one I did have a clue on, was talking to one of my professors last week and he helped me identify a different Townsend’s Solitaire that I had seen by pointing out white the ring around the eye.
Townsend’s Solitaire, 03-05-2011, Rexburg, ID. Canon T2i, f/5.6, 1/125 sec. 500mm.
After looking closer again in another picture I also noticed the V in the tail. The V in the tail and the ring around the eye would have been two good indicators to help me identify this bird without a better look.
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