Day 40

Please bear with me & read thru this long post.  Or at least look at the pics.  It will be worth it in the end, I PROMISE!!!!

I drove across the river to get (cheaper) gas today.  Since I had a few minutes to kill before picking up the kids, I decided to see if I could get some Eagle pics with my fancy pants new camera!  I pulled over to where the eagles usually hang & got this pic.  Not so exciting although you can tell the one one right is a bald eagle.  I don't know if the one on the left is a golden eagle or maybe just a hawk.  Probably not as eagles don't hang w/other birds.

So, I drive to the dam to see if I can get something better.  Well, apparently, they don't clear bird watching roads!  It's all icy & I turn around to come back.  But, I get this cool shot of the cool Alton bridge!!



I pick the kids up from school & the route I take home takes me back by the river again.  OOOO, there are FOUR eagles in the trees on the side of the road.  MUCH CLOSER!!!  I take the pic.  OOOO, I guess this is where I need to learn about depth of field & that stuff.  BUMMER!!!!  But, you can tell it is a bald eagle, right??

Here are 3 of the four.  What, you can only see two???  Well #3 is the blur next to the 2 in my watermark.  LOL

But, since I am so close & other people are now stopping to get pics, I try again from a better angle.  SUCCESS!!!  Now, when Scott asks me again what I want for Valentine's Day, I can tell him, a LONGER LENS!!!  LOL

I seriously LOVE this pic.  I might even print it & enter it into the local Eagle photo contest!!!