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Alfred Forns
04-14-2009, 10:39 PM
Congratulations John Blumenkamp
Juvenile Bald Eagle

This image was created a few weeks back here in northern Utah... to me the younger bald eagles are as interesting, if not more so, than the adults. Cool birds regardless of their age.

40D w/ 400 5.6L
1/2000 f/6.3 iso400
handheld

Thanks for looking,
John


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Axel Hildebrandt
04-14-2009, 10:45 PM
Congratulations, John! Well deserved.

Fabs Forns
04-14-2009, 10:52 PM
Congrats, John, very nice image!

Lance Peters
04-15-2009, 03:54 AM
congrats John :)

Phil Ertel
04-15-2009, 06:26 AM
Congratulations John. Very nive!!!

denise ippolito
04-15-2009, 06:46 AM
John, Well deserved!!Congrats!

Mike Lentz
04-15-2009, 07:11 AM
I liked this one alot when it was originally posted! Congrats!

Ilija Dukovski
04-15-2009, 09:27 AM
Congratulations!

Gus Cobos
04-15-2009, 08:51 PM
Congratulations John...:cool:

Ákos Lumnitzer
04-16-2009, 09:03 PM
Congrats on a wonderful image. :)

Nate Chappell
04-17-2009, 03:15 PM
Congrats John, love the bg.

Roman Kurywczak
04-18-2009, 01:38 PM
Congrats John! Well deserved! For me the mntn. BGR make it something special!

Chris van Rooyen
04-19-2009, 10:28 AM
Cannot find fault with this one! Lovely sharpness and the mountain in the background ads atmosphere

Kirk Zufelt
04-21-2009, 09:49 PM
A juvenile or juvenal plumage refers to the first "full sized" plumage a bird obtains. After the birds first molt they are no longer in juvenal plumage but rarely are they in adult plumage. Juvenile (juvenal plumage) is not synonomous with immature which refers to any plumage that is not adult.

The yellow cere and mostly yellow bill of this bird definitively rules out this being a juvenile bird. The extensive amount of white on the head and other features suggests that this bird probably fits into what Wheeler refers to as a"subadult 2'' plumage- or more simply probably a third year bird.

Kirk Zufelt