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Great Grey On The Hunt

Great Grey On The Hunt

taken in the wild and not a baited owl. It was a fantastic experience in the bog photographing GGO hunting.

taken in the wild and not a baited owl. It was a fantastic experience in the bog photographing GGO hunting.
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Jan, 2019

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Great shot, Kelly. I see we are both finalists in this contest. Love the look of concentration and the moment before the snow entry.

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This is typical behavior one eagle gets a fish and others try to take it. Taken at a dam in the winter.

There are about 200 eagles in this area and the shad fish are slowly dying. The eagles are having a feeding frenzy.

lots of very wet snow falling while eagles fish

Up in Northern Wisconsin at Crex Meadows there where about 10,000 sandhills on their way south.

It was a fantastic week in the Tetons even if it rained a lot.

thousands of sandhills at sunrise take off for the corn fields for the day to feed on corn

Roosevelt National Park

Yellowstone national park fall

Mom and kit spend time and the little kit enjoys a bath.

Northern Wisconsin

Winter is the time American eagles fly at dams to fish for fish.

Badlands

In Wisconsin in January and February is a magical time at the Dams were the eagles fish

egret in flight

Wild Horses

My dad had just passed and I was walking along the tracks to photograph the eagle migration. I shot this with my sigma 150 500

Watching this whole process from flying around to talons down and entering the snow to catch the prey is a total adrenal rush. I posted the one with t

Its the rut and that means mating. The whole courtship was very interesting to watch. The female will be mounted 3 times in between each mount the fem

Behind The Lens

Location

Northern Minnesota

Time

around 11 a.m.

Lighting

The light was winter light which at times is grey but the snow brightens up the subject

Equipment

Canon 7dii canon 500mm 4.0 Fiesol tripod no flash and a none baited owl.

Inspiration

I specifically went to photograph the great grey owl in this area. My inspiration where the owls.

Editing

I did general processing, sharpening, and sliders and a small crop.

In my camera bag

2 canon 7dii canon 500 mm canon 100-400ii, canon 24-70 2.0 canon 70-200 2.0 canon 50 mm 1.8 canon 10-20 4.0-5.6

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