Looking an eagle in the eye...

jlmarta
jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
in Non Cigar Related
Can't seem to make the search function work so I could find the original thread, but here's a shot of a fledgling bald eagle looking right atcha....:

The fledglings are getting antsy - jumping around the nest, flapping their wings, practicing for when they finally fly....  

This guy jumped up and looked right into the camera when I took this shot...

Comments

  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep. The one was munching at the camera lens yesterday. Fascinating brood.
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    webmost said:
    Yep. The one was munching at the camera lens yesterday. Fascinating brood.
    I haven't been watching for a while. Do ya know how the camera lens got cleaned after one of the chicks pooped on it??
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2015
    I just bumped "Eaglet Weekend". Was that the old thread? 

    http://forum.cigar.com/discussion/880971/eaglet-weekend#latest


  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bob_Luken said:
    I just bumped "Eaglet Weekend". Was that the old thread? 

    http://forum.cigar.com/discussion/880971/eaglet-weekend#latest


    Yeah, that was it. I don't know if you've tried the search function from an iPhone yet, but it doesn't work for sour owl poop ....

    Thanks.....
  • raisindot
    raisindot Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    webmost said:
    Yep. The one was munching at the camera lens yesterday. Fascinating brood.
    I haven't been watching for a while. Do ya know how the camera lens got cleaned after one of the chicks pooped on it??
    It happened "naturally" through rain or evaporation or whatever. The biologists don't clean the lens when the family is there, since doing so might cause Mom and Dad to vacate the nest. 
  • Martel
    Martel Posts: 3,306 ✭✭✭✭
    raisindot said:
    jlmarta said:
    webmost said:
    Yep. The one was munching at the camera lens yesterday. Fascinating brood.
    I haven't been watching for a while. Do ya know how the camera lens got cleaned after one of the chicks pooped on it??
    It happened "naturally" through rain or evaporation or whatever. The biologists don't clean the lens when the family is there, since doing so might cause Mom and Dad to vacate the nest. 
    Some of the clearer picture was also due to HDOnTap adjusting some camera settings, I believe.  It improved clarity despite the droppings.
    Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

    I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot.  I will smoke anything, though.

Categories