Monthly Archives: September 2009

GBH, the landing

Great Blue Heron comes in for a landing on the rocks along the shore. The GBHs have been very aggressive this year along the river. The usual territorial disputes between GBHs have been joined this season by outright attacks on unsuspecting perched Eagles by the Great Blues. I think once we have more Eagles migrate...

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Conrail Locomotive No. 2233 – Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Conrail locomotive No. 2233. PRR Class EF22 No. 2233. Gifted to the museum on 3/1998 of Julia Sanders. Serviceable. Restored 6/2002 by Norfolk Southern to 1976 Conrail appearance. For more information on visiting the museum, visit their web site at www.rrmuseumpa.org/index.shtml. I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames then combined into an HDR and...

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Taking one back to the perch

Adult Bald Eagle with a tight grip on a freshly caught fish, flies off over the Susquehanna River in Maryland on Sunday 9-27-2009. We saw most of the better action happening in the late afternoon on this day. For more information on Bald Eagles, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.

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Eagle gives a curious look

Adult Bald Eagle soaring over the Susquehanna River in Maryland on Sunday 9-5-2009. This is a pretty heavy crop with a little too much grain in the head area but I still liked the look the bird was giving the river below. I think he was checking out one of the Cormorants to see if...

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Steller’s Sea Eagle profile – National Aviary

This is one of the two Steller’s Sea Eagles at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, PA. Stellar’s Sea Eagles are the largest Eagles in the world and are native to coastal areas around the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia, south to the island of Hokkaido, Japan. They are in near-threatened status in the wild with...

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Finding a new place to fish

A Great Egret comes in for a landing in a new section of Raymond Pool. Egrets were seen transferring spots over and over again all morning on this trip, some being pushed out of other areas by other Egrets and some just finding a new spot because they were not catching any fish where they...

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Bald Eagle / Lake Ontelaunee composite

Time to get my creative hat on. I grabbed a previously un-posted shot I took of an adult Bald Eagle flying over the Susquehanna River in Maryland back on 8-1-2009 and combined it with a sunset shot at Lake Ontelaunee in Pennsylvania I took back on 7-15-2009 to make this composite piece. Lake Ontelaunee does...

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