I was leaving the river bank when this young eagle flashed between me and the afternoon sun.
bald eagle
Taggoing for another fish
Petruchio, the male, is leaving the nest after having dropped off a fish for his mate Kate. She finished the fish in less than 2 minutes.
grand start
what a grand way to start the new year: 4 year-old eagle over the Haw River
incubation
For those of you new to my Journey, I watch a nest of bald eagles on Jordan Lake every year. I try hard to get the best photos I can at the long distances needed to not disturb the parents. I call the eagle pair Kate and Petruchio. They are starting their 4th year of raising eaglets. In this photo Kate has begun brooding / incubating her egg(s)! All you can see of her is the upper half of her head, beak facing to the right, bright eye on alert. I watched Petruchio, her mate, bring her a fish yesterday but it was too dark to get a photo.
doc ellen’s announcement
Dear Friends:
At long last I have gotten my dreamingsongs photography site finished – where if something strikes your fancy, you can now order prints of many of my photos.
I will be placing the dreamingsongs link below the photo and its caption on any photo that I have ready for ordering. It will look like this:
American bald eagle
to order this photo, please go to http://www.dreamingsongsphotos.com/
If you do not see a photo that you remember from the past and are interested in ordering it, please let me know the date and subject of the photo and I will get back with you. It is a somewhat slow process to place the photos into the web site – it will take me a while to get more of the photos up.
I hope that you enjoy being able to easily see many of my photos all in one place!
peace and grace,
doc ellen
yearling
As this yearling eagle flew over the waters of Lake Mattamuskeet he started to furl his wings.
I hoped he would dive for whatever he was seeing – instead he flew on.
doc ellen's journey 