clanthar
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Went on a short road trip to Reelfoot Lk and back. On the way down I was driving the back roads along the Mississippi -- including some of the levees.
I see bald eagles all year long now on the river and I see them nearly every time I go near the river. They've made a great come-back. Sometimes I see small groups of as many as half a dozen, but I wasn't prepared for what I saw yesterday. I was driving the levee on the MO side south of Chester IL and I ran into a flock of between 50 and 100 bald eagles -- I'm going to estimate about 80. I've never seen anything like it. I'm stunned.
I'm not a wildlife photographer and if you asked me to give you a snap answer on what lens I couldn't live without I say 24mm. So I wasn't prepared to photograph the birds, but just so my wife would believe me I grabbed this one snapshot; I count at least 40 eagles in just this frame and I swear this wasn't half of them.
Here's where they were: 37.810503,-89.703398 - Google Maps
Joe
I see bald eagles all year long now on the river and I see them nearly every time I go near the river. They've made a great come-back. Sometimes I see small groups of as many as half a dozen, but I wasn't prepared for what I saw yesterday. I was driving the levee on the MO side south of Chester IL and I ran into a flock of between 50 and 100 bald eagles -- I'm going to estimate about 80. I've never seen anything like it. I'm stunned.
I'm not a wildlife photographer and if you asked me to give you a snap answer on what lens I couldn't live without I say 24mm. So I wasn't prepared to photograph the birds, but just so my wife would believe me I grabbed this one snapshot; I count at least 40 eagles in just this frame and I swear this wasn't half of them.
Here's where they were: 37.810503,-89.703398 - Google Maps
Joe
