Holy bald eagle!
Oct. 17th, 2012 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cairistionaMy mom has been having quite a time of it lately with some serious health issues, but today she was feeling a little better, so I took her and my dad for a drive to see the fall color in the hopes that it would cheer her up a little. What we didn't expect to see was this:
Apologies for the blurry photo... I literally threw my camera to my eye and snapped blindly, hoping that I'd catch him as he flew over the lake. This is the earliest I can ever remember seeing a bald eagle in our area. They don't usually arrive until late December or January. I don't know if he's sensing a hard winter ahead and so left the north early or what, but we felt incredibly blessed to have seen him (or her!). Needless to say, it made our day!
As for the lake and the trees, the lighting was pretty bad for photos, as it was the middle of the day and cloudy at that, with storms rolling in, but here's a couple of the lake itself:
I've posted photos from this lake before... it's always a beautiful area to watch nature. :)
Apologies for the blurry photo... I literally threw my camera to my eye and snapped blindly, hoping that I'd catch him as he flew over the lake. This is the earliest I can ever remember seeing a bald eagle in our area. They don't usually arrive until late December or January. I don't know if he's sensing a hard winter ahead and so left the north early or what, but we felt incredibly blessed to have seen him (or her!). Needless to say, it made our day!
As for the lake and the trees, the lighting was pretty bad for photos, as it was the middle of the day and cloudy at that, with storms rolling in, but here's a couple of the lake itself:
I've posted photos from this lake before... it's always a beautiful area to watch nature. :)
