I was talking about the local eagles with an acquaintance. He was aware that the eagles lived nearby but did not know where the nest was located. It turns out that he has a real nice Nikon with a huge telephoto lens. We walked over to the viewing spot and he shot a few pictures this morning. He shared these two with me.
DSC_0471 (2) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
DSC_0479 (2) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
DSC_0465 (2) by Mark Hardy, on FlickrGuyK, I see from your profile you live in Shoreline. Is the Osprey nest in Shoreline active this year? In years past a good viewing spot was from the Leena's Cafe parking lot looking north. I used to work near there.
I didn't know there was an Osprey nest north of Lena's, so cannot answer. I'll have to take a look this weekend; Lena's is walking distance from home. I even had breakfast there about 3 weeks ago. How long ago, and whereabouts did you used to work in the area?
I retired about five years ago. I was a service tech at the Water Store. My job was out in the field so I did not see them much but I did have to clean osprey poop from my truck.
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DX format Nikon DSLR (D5600) with a 70 - 300 mm VR ED Nikkor Zoom (nice lens) -- both of which were very kindly given to me by our son (who, as I've said on many occasions is the real photographer in the family, despite masquerading as a mild-mannered mathematics professor).
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Plus... If one goes to the link at Flikr & scrolls down a wee bit, the metadata may be seen on most of the stuff I upload there.
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Mark, it must be a bird thing. I had this eaglet staring me down yesterday. The eaglet's vision is a lot better than my camera/spotting scope combo is at approximately 750 feet.
Ain't the beer cold?!
