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We made a spur of the moment trip up to Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee yesterday to check out the bald eagles and nests. This is a gallery of my eagle photos from the day. All of these were shot with a Nikon 500mm F4 with a 1.4 Teleconverter, making these 700mm. None of these in the gallery are cropped, so you can see exactly what I saw with this lens. The final big photo shown below is cropped in tighter so you can see the beautiful bird a bit closer. Shooting conditions were rough. Temperatures were frigid yesterday, especially with the extremely high winds. It was hard to hold that big camera/lens combo in those winds. There's a winter storm coming in later this week, so I imagine that's got Mother Nature fired up! Most of the eagles we saw were in the area of the visitor center. We did go to the levee and counted several nests on the levee {6, I believe} as well as a couple in the trees in the middle of the fields. None of the nests we saw had activity, but it's a bit early for nesting and I believe the eagles do most of their nest work early in the morning. We were there in the mid-afternoon. The sun was out when we got to Reelfoot yesterday morning, but by the time we arrived over by the levee area, it had turned cloudy. I have found the most exciting time to go to Reelfoot is when the snow geese arrive. Last year, we were there on February 9th and it was covered up with geese and eagles everywhere. In 2021, I don't think we went due to bad weather. In 2020, it was January 25th when we were there with tons of snow geese present and lots of eagle activity. So I will be watching close to see when the snow geese make it there this year...my guess is anything between the end of January and first week or so of February. Although we have been having colder winter weather already this year, and we have a big winter storm coming this weekend, so I'm wondering if that may push the geese and wintering eagles into the area sooner. I'll keep an eye on it!  |
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