Eagle

I love the Bald Eagle.  I find them majestic and beautiful.  I know that they can be, and often are, scavengers.  That fact does not diminish their stature in my eyes.

As fall approaches we often start seeing a few Bald Eagles in our area.  I saw one yesterday but didn't have the camera out in time.  Today as I was driving around  NAS Pax River I saw one perched quite close to the road on a wooden sign.  I went up the road a short distance, pulled over and got my camera and 200mm zoom lens out.  I drove slowly back toward the eagle and amazingly he didn't fly off immediately.  I took a number of rapid shots.

He did jump to a take-off and then slid below horizon of the grass berm that's above the river. 

  I took a similar drive on the way home.  I spotted some of the geese in a small pond, and then a Turkey Vulture.

 






To the right:  There's always one guy .....
 

 The Vulture isn't the prettiest beast, but he has an important job... janitor.

I spotted the eagle further ahead, not far from where I had seen it in the morning.  I was able to snap a quick few shots and they didn't turn out too bad with a bit of processing and cropping.

 
I mentioned on FaceBook that I was both excited and sad about this post.  That's because you can see in the zoomed-in cropped photos that one of his eyes is clouded over - like a cataract is there.  I hope that's all that is wrong with him (her?)