Adult Bald Eagle jumps from one branch to another in order to get higher and further out over the Susquehanna River so that he can keep on eye on the fish and his Eagle competitors in the area. Taken in Maryland on Saturday 12-12-2009. This shot is a lot noisier than I would have liked but the bird was mostly in shadows when he jumped.
Things were pretty slow earlier in the day and just as we started to lose the good sunlight, all hell broke lose in the Eagle community and we were witness to a dozen different Eagle battles for fish. On two occasions, right over our heads in the parking lot, a chase between Eagles over a fish ended up with neither Eagle keeping the fish and the fish almost hitting parked cars in the lot. Though there wasn’t enough light over the parking area to photograph it, these battles were still a real privilege to be able to watch.
For more information on Bald Eagles, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.
