{"id":11229,"date":"2012-05-31T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:23:13","slug":"bald-eagle-close-up-4-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/bald-eagle-close-up-4-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald Eagle Close Up \u2013 4 Year Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago I had some wonderful photo ops with this 4-year-old Bald Eagle at Farmington Bay Wildlife Management Area, it often perched on an old wooden pole by the boat launch (before they stuck a bat house on the pole it was a favorite for raptors, I hope the bat house rots and falls off soon). The Bald Eagle had left its perch to go fishing in the water and an American Kestrel took over the pole.<\/p>\n

Well the Eagle didn’t like that it seemed because when it saw the Kestrel it came flying back to the pole rather quickly and took back its perch.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have time to zoom back since the Eagle flew in so fast which is how I got this close up. Normally I wouldn’t like having the wings clipped in a frame but I think it works with this image.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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4 year old Bald Eagle close up – Nikon D200, f6.3, 1\/1250, ISO 200, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Mia McPherson, OntheWingPhotography.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years ago I had some wonderful photo ops with this 4-year-old Bald Eagle at Farmington Bay Wildlife Management Area, it often perched on an old wooden pole by the boat launch (before they stuck a bat house on the pole it was a favorite for raptors, I hope the bat house rots and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2192181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bald-eagle-4-year-old-mia-mcpherson-3398.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","ngg_tag-animals","ngg_tag-bird","ngg_tag-animal","ngg_tag-animalia","ngg_tag-atlantic-rainforest","ngg_tag-aves","ngg_tag-avian-2","ngg_tag-bird-watching","ngg_tag-birds-2","ngg_tag-birdwatching","ngg_tag-brazil-2","ngg_tag-glenn-bartley","ngg_tag-nature","ngg_tag-neotropical","ngg_tag-pantanal","ngg_tag-rainforest","ngg_tag-south-america-2","ngg_tag-wildlife-3","ngg_tag-yellow-chevroned-parakeet-brotogeris-chiriri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}