Lean, mean, sreaming machine!

[gail bisson]

Something had seriously made the eagle angry! He kept circling and screaming even though I couldn't see any other eagles around. Picture taken at my friend's house. He throws fish heads out on the water for the eagles. He has been doing in for 12 years now. In the winter, when the eagles are hungrier he can have as many as 14 eagles flying about. Very fun!!
Canon 7D
100-400mm at 320mm
ISO 400
SS 1/2500
f 6.3
cropped on the left by 20%
Light very harsh as picture taken at 3:00PM
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from with thanks.

[Harshad Barve]

wow , now this is something a pose called

excellent image with nice BG
TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Gail, great DOF, and I like the interesting pose - all wing and dangling legs. Overall, I do find the image a touch on the dark side, but the excellent feather detail is visible. Maybe lightening the eagle will make this pop a little more. ( you can select the whites, so as not to bring them out any more, when lightening the rest of the eagle. Not too much to spoil it. )

[Herb Houghton]

Hi Gail, nice pose and quite a unique one at that. I'm not too keen on the baiting thing with eagles and owls, but that's JMO. I prefer the old fashioned, natural way of being in the right place, right time. Too much of the baiting will make eagles more reliable on their food source from humans, which is not natural, or good for the eagles anyway. Folks by us, drag roadkill deer onto the ice for the eagles to acquire photo ops. I do think the whites are a tad hot, especially the head, beak and base of the tail. The uniform water ripples in the BGD does make for a nice BGD.

[Karl Egressy]

Hi Gail, nice pose and quite a unique one at that. I'm not too keen on the baiting thing with eagles and owls, but that's JMO. I prefer the old fashioned, natural way of being in the right place, right time. Too much of the baiting will make eagles more reliable on their food source from humans, which is not natural, or good for the eagles anyway. Folks by us, drag roadkill deer onto the ice for the eagles to acquire photo ops. I do think the whites are a tad hot, especially the head, beak and base of the tail. The uniform water ripples in the BGD does make for a nice BGD.

Nice pose captured, Gail. The white on the head looks a little grayish. Is it normal or the result of PP?

Hi Herb,

The term of baiting is used wrongly by many pepole.
What you describe as baiting is actually feeding.
On the East Coast of Canada, some dedicated farmers feed the over wintering Bald Eagles to help them to survive, as shown on Nature Channel
a few years back.
Baiting as per online Dictionary: "Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals"

[Arthur Morris]

I have no problem feeding fish to raptors. I do not see any difference between that and feeding seed to songbirds.... The WHITEs look toasted. Once you learn exposure theory and learn to check for blinkies it is easy to prevent overexposing bright WHITEs regardless of the light... Nice angry pose and sharp.