Balck Darter Dragonfly taken at Insh Marshes, Highlands, Scotland

During each winter, hundreds bald eagles come to upper Skagit River from Alaska. They catch salmons in the morning and stay on trees for afternoon rests.

I ran into someone at Newnans Lake today who happens to be extremely knowledgeable about where to find the resident wildlife - including a non-migratory breeding pair of Bald Eagles.

We only saw one adult and the surviving immature (~1 y.o.) eagle, but we heard the other adult in the distance; the adults carried on a raucous conversation that lasted a couple minutes.

As for the attached, it's another neck-wrenching hand-held shot through a 40-150mm kit lens with a 50% crop of the SHQ photo-file - a real stretch.

Oh, how I yearn for a ZD 50-200 and a 1.4-TC. Of course, I wouldn't mind checking out the ZD 300/f-2.8, for that matter; why that would be sublime.

One highlight worth mentioning is the unsolicited comment (made by this canon fancier I met today); he couldn't get over just how quiet the E-1 is. (No kiddin', eh?)

Ciao!

Glacier Nat'l Park - Canada