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Bald Eagle Food Fight!

Food Fight! After two days of a Blizzard up here in the Northland, the raptors are hungry. Only the “top eagle” gets to eat first! The winds are supposed to die down by tomorrow morning. Thus, assuming back roads are plowed, I will be out before sunrise. There should be lots of action from hunters who have had to fast for the past 48+ hours. This sequence of photographs were taken this afternoon, and cover less than 2 seconds in real time.

Can’t we just be friends?

Download Snowy w/o Charge!

The second edition of Snowy’s Search for Color is at the printer. The end result is you may now download the second edition PDF at no charge. Unfortunately printed copies of Snowy will not be available till mid January.

I always give away PDF full versions of my children’s owl picture books. Thus, here are the two pages from which to get a free copy of Hoot or Snowy for the Holidays and view “online extras” about Snowy and Great Horned Owls.

Now it’s time to hunker down. Up to two feet of snow are expected in the next 48 hours as a winter storm bears down on the Northland.


As a fyi … compared to the first edition, the second edition has two additional pages, one totally reworked page, and further optimized images. In addition, the online extras page on this site for Snowy Owls was created.

Bald Eagles Think 4 Year Old Toddlers are Scary!

Two days ago I was birding near a favorite spt, an old apple farm which is a bit inland from Lake Superior. The Bald Eagle pictured here was hunting at the farm until some toddlers came out to play. Uff dah! Little kids are scary! The sequence duration of photographs is no more than a two seconds.

Small Humans Spotted


Raise Wings … Rotate into the Wind

Take-Off

Final Close of of the Bald Eagle

Note: Large birds will almost always take-off into the wind.