Dale Matson
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This was the first tour of the
season with about 20 people including two officers and Mike Smith our tour
guide. We saw about 13 different eagles on our tour which was about 18 miles
round trip by my GPS.
We began at 8am with a one-hour
video primarily dealing with the near extinction of eagle pairs and the
migratory flight path of the seasonal eagles that took them to Millerton Lake
from their nesting sites at Great Slave Lake in Canada. Mike answered questions
and then we headed down to the boat ramp for our 3-hour tour. I believe we
would have only seen one eagle if we had not been on a boat.
We have taken several tours over
the years but I believe this is the most different eagles we have seen and the
closest we have gotten. This is also the closed photographs I have gotten of
the resident Golden Eagle pair on the Madera Side of the lake on the boat tour.
I had a new long lens for this tour. I used a Sony A9 with a 200-600mm lens
with a 1.4 TC. Of course, there is always a pit stop with hot chocolate.
Old Eagle Nest
New Occupied Nest
Golden Eagle Pair
Golden In Flight
Hikers On Pincushion Mountain
The End Of The Line Finegold Creek
Another New Nest?
Golden Eagle Nest
Courthouse Eagle
Pelicans
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