Monthly Archives: December 2009

Eagle version of the “cannonball”

Adult Bald Eagle dives down and extends its talons into the water to grab a fish for breakfast out of the Susquehanna River in Maryland on Sunday 11-29-2009. It’s not often that you park your car, walk 50 feet across the parking lot, set up your tripod with the morning’s golden sun hitting the water...

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Pool Forge Covered Bridge (Lancaster County, PA)

The Pool Forge Covered Bridge resides within the historic Pool Forge park in Caenarvon Township, a rural area within Lancaster County’s famous Amish countryside. Built by Levi Fink and Elias McMellen in 1859 at the cost of $1219, it spans the Conestoga Creek for 99 feet. It was also known as Yohn’s Mill Bridge. It’s...

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Sophie (A.K.A. “S04″)

Juvenile Bald Eagle “Sophie” sits in a tree after eating a fish caught on the Susquehanna River in Maryland on Sunday 11-22-2009. How do we know this is “Sophie” ? Well, according to the blue band around it’s right leg which identifies this as “S04″, a New York native that was born in a nest...

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