I don't get no breaks - a sad story

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited October 18, 2005 in Wildlife
Hi you'll,

It was a rough day. I went out to the wetlands. As I was leaving I told Linda that I was getting worried because the eagles hadn't returned yet and were overdue. I said it would be nice to get a good eagle shot.

Well the day was lousy, grey and overcast. I spent 3 hours in the wetlands and no eagle. I decided to go to Starbucks for a quick cup. As I was driving down the road there was this bald eagle sitting on a power pole. I passed up the shot. I mean a bald eagle on a power pole is like pineapple on pizza.

On the way back there was that shameless eagle still sitting on the power pole so I decided an eagle on a power pole is better than no eagle at all. So I snapped a few shots. I was on the side of the road with traffic whizzing by so I couldn't set up my tripod and these shots were handheld.

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I got to the wetlands and as I was entering I saw an osprey sitting on THE TREE. I headed on over there and I saw that the osprey was actually a bald eagle. When I got even closer I saw that there was actually two bald eagles in the tree with one on the lower branch. Be still my foolish heart two, not one but two bald eagles on THE TREE. :clap :clap
Now I had to switch from my 500 to my 80-400 to be able to get both bald eagles in the shot. Naturally as I was in mid lens change one of the eagles took off. :cry No two eagle in THE TREE shot. I don't get no breaks first a power pole now only one eagle. Broken in spirit I snapped off these shots hand held
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I then started to set up my tripod and of course the eagle took off before I could finish. I don't get no breaks. :cry
Harry
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  • behr655behr655 Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2005
    I should get no breaks like you get no breaks.eek7.gif Nioce shots.

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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2005
    AWWWWWWWWW, I realy feel sorry for you ....................... NOT.rolleyes1.gifQuit ya bitchen', everyone
    on these board would give an eye tooth for those shots.

    Great results, even w/o a TP. As I left work today there was a redtail sitting on a fence
    post and me wishing I had my camera. Trouble was it's the airport fence
    and the traffic heavy. Oh well.
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2005
    Well you just shot yourself in the foot
    because I and Wolfgang Puck have been tellin ya Pineapple on pizza is the cat's meow. rolleyes1.gif

    and an eagle on a power pole well heck it's just a little extra chesse topping
    I'd swear off pineapple pizza if I could get an eagle on any pole, tree, fence etc. etc. :lol4 clap.gif

    I wanna feel bad for ya Boss but just no way no how mwink.gif

    The only thing missing is a KingFisher and a little Macarenna action rolleyes1.gif :lol blbl.gif

    Hey were's your ISO setting in your tag. What was it set at ??
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2005
    behr655 wrote:
    I should get no breaks like you get no breaks.eek7.gif Nioce shots.

    Bear
    Thanks Bear, it wasn't easy. :D
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  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2005
    Nice shots Harry. Don't much like that power pole..either..but at least you saw a damn BOP. I got stuck shooting a couple GBH down at the Intra-coastal waterway again. Oh well....someday I'll find me an eagle. Still no pelicans at "Pelican Alley". I'm getting worried. I have not seen my local dolphin either. Damn.


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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    mr lucky and his tree :D really good shots Harry thumb.gif boy one day I will find an eagle if Ben does not scare it i will get one shot rolleyes1.gif
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  • Eric&SusanEric&Susan Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    I need to find a tree like yours.

    Great shots Harrythumb.gif

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  • luckydogluckydog Registered Users Posts: 396 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Poor Baby! Are you okay???

    I'd eat poo to get photo opps like the "bad day" shots you have here!! Quit ya bleatin' and get back out there to take more pics for us.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Allen wrote:
    AWWWWWWWWW, I realy feel sorry for you ....................... NOT.rolleyes1.gifQuit ya bitchen', everyone
    on these board would give an eye tooth for those shots.

    Great results, even w/o a TP. As I left work today there was a redtail sitting on a fence
    post and me wishing I had my camera. Trouble was it's the airport fence
    and the traffic heavy. Oh well.
    AL
    If I told you I had to shoot these with my D100 because my D2h is being repaired again would that help? :D

    Thanks Allen.
    Harry
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Awwwww.....
    .....you can get your tongue out of your cheek now! rolleyes1.gif

    The power pole shots please me, in that it shows how these magnificent birds are coping and even flourishing in a human dominated environment.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    bfjr wrote:
    because I and Wolfgang Puck have been tellin ya Pineapple on pizza is the cat's meow. yelrotflmao.gif

    and an eagle on a power pole well heck it's just a little extra chesse topping
    I'd swear off pineapple pizza if I could get an eagle on any pole, tree, fence etc. etc. roflol.gifclap.gif

    I wanna feel bad for ya Boss but just no way no how mwink.gif

    The only thing missing is a KingFisher and a little Macarenna action yelrotflmao.giflol3.gifblbl.gif

    Hey were's your ISO setting in your tag. What was it set at ??
    Hey Ben,

    If this wasn't a 'G' rated site I could tell you and Mr. Puck where you could put your pineapple pizza. puke2.gif

    Boy I can't get any sympathy here. :uhoh Don' forget I was shooting with my D100 too. :cry

    The ISO settins were 250 for the first 2 shots, 320 for the 3rd, 400 for the 4th, and 500 for the last two.
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  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    I feel sooo sorry for you you poor lamb.. such a terrible day.. NOT... I echo quit yer bitchin..

    AND I love the power pole ones..adds something..clap.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Bird Man Photographer wrote:
    Nice shots Harry. Don't much like that power pole..either..but at least you saw a damn BOP. I got stuck shooting a couple GBH down at the Intra-coastal waterway again. Oh well....someday I'll find me an eagle. Still no pelicans at "Pelican Alley". I'm getting worried. I have not seen my local dolphin either. Damn.


    MM
    hey Mike,

    Not fair, I don't want to hear about your problems when I'm moaning and groaning about my own. eek7.gif

    I think there should be some law about eagles and power poles. Oh well, when I get some time maybe I start doing some cloning on those shots.
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Well, Harry, I am glad you got an eagle! Now I don't have to!

    Smile,

    ginger


    I got a "little" birdie yesterday, haven't had time to work it up. Been too busy doing some assignment. Now, I ache to much to go to sleep.
    Are you working on the assignment, too?
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Things are worse than you think harry.

    I love pineapple on my pizza (guswife gets anchovies on 'em :puke ) & ive nearly crashed the truck several times over the past weeks looking at bloody egrets beside the road !
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Things are worse than you think harry.

    I love pineapple on my pizza (guswife gets anchovies on 'em :puke ) & ive nearly crashed the truck several times over the past weeks looking at bloody egrets beside the road !
    Couldn't run over them, Gus? If they are in the air, take a photo with your widest lens, work it up and post it here under my name, please?

    ginger
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    jwear wrote:
    mr lucky and his tree icon10.gif really good shots Harry thumb.gif boy one day I will find an eagle if Ben does not scare it i will get one shot yelrotflmao.gif
    Hey Jeff,

    I got these shots with my musket (D100). I was lucky and Ben wasn't around. I could see how he would scare them off. lol3.gif

    Thanks.
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  • iceman17iceman17 Registered Users Posts: 246 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Ho Hum shots Harry,I feel for you though ,heck having to go all the way up to ISO 500 and hand held with out your pod,only to get shots like this,man that sucks:cry .Maby next time you'll get some decent Eagle shots for your gallery,Lord knows you could use one or tworolleyes1.gif .

    OK all kidding aside, these are great.Although I thought I was the only one shooting raptors on power poles.As for your Eagle gallery,well ive never seen so many spectacular Eagle shots in one place before.My hats off to you Harry...ice
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    but they made me give it back.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Eric&Susan wrote:
    I need to find a tree like yours.

    Great shots Harrythumb.gif

    Eric
    Thanks Eric. That tree is the greatest. I've shot eagles, hawks, ospreys, and caracaras all on that same tree. Everyone should have one, even Ben. :D
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    luckydog wrote:
    Poor Baby! Are you okay???

    I'd eat poo to get photo opps like the "bad day" shots you have here!! Quit ya bleatin' and get back out there to take more pics for us.
    Golly Darryl you're a hard man. :uhoh Looks like I ain't getting no sympathy here so I better take some more shots. :D

    Thanks
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    Hey Ben,

    If this wasn't a 'G' rated site I could tell you and Mr. Puck where you could put your pineapple pizza. puke2.gif

    Boy I can't get any sympathy here. :uhoh Don' forget I was shooting with my D100 too. :cry

    The ISO settins were 250 for the first 2 shots, 320 for the 3rd, 400 for the 4th, and 500 for the last two.
    it is very hard when you have to push the button each shot ain't it :cry umph.gif I feel your pain old guy 1drink.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    Thanks Eric. That tree is the greatest. I've shot eagles, hawks, ospreys, and caracaras all on that same tree. Everyone should have one, even Ben. :D
    You know Harry, I am seeing that tree quite a bit now, in various places. I even took a photo of one of the trees like that a few weeks ago. Can't work up/post everything. Didn't think you all would be impressed by an empty tree stump thing.

    But with all these perfect perches around here, the birds just arent sitting on them. Not here. Not on power poles either.

    I still want to see an eagle, and I take pictures of anything I want to see. However there is no way I am going to get a photo of an eagle like yours. Some of it is just not knowing my camera, settings, etc as well as you do, though I probably shoot as often. I think I am lazier. But part of it is different equipment, I really do think that makes a difference, not the whole difference, but a difference.

    I do have some raptor shots from Friday, they are a good hawk. I will work them up when I get to them. They are in the air. Mostly I was getting those turkey vulture things, but some of them are one of those red........ something raptors, pretty. But not as good as yours. None the less, I will work them up.

    ginger (I lost my bird book, need to buy a better one anyway. We are getting some strange birds, or they are juveniles. But that is why I appear so stupid on the birds the last few days.)

    Any, tell your birds that I have the trees here, just perfect! You all come!!
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    .....you can get your tongue out of your cheek now! rolleyes1.gif

    The power pole shots please me, in that it shows how these magnificent birds are coping and even flourishing in a human dominated environment.
    Thanks Ric. Its funny that you should say that about the power pole because thats what I was thinking when I first viewed the shots on my monitor.

    No matter how many times I've seen them its always a thrill. I've missed a few flight shots because I'm almost mesmerized when they spread their wings and take off. Its a magnificent sight.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    lynnma wrote:
    I feel sooo sorry for you you poor lamb.. such a terrible day.. NOT... I echo quit yer bitchin..

    AND I love the power pole ones..adds something..clap.gif
    Geez, if I can't get sympathy from Lynn I'm really out of luck. I told ya that I can't get a break. :D

    Thanks for the kind words about the power poles.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Well, Harry, I am glad you got an eagle! Now I don't have to!

    Smile,

    ginger


    I got a "little" birdie yesterday, haven't had time to work it up. Been too busy doing some assignment. Now, I ache to much to go to sleep.
    Are you working on the assignment, too?
    None of that Ginger. I'm expecting to see an eagle capture form you sometime in the future.

    I'm doing some work on the assignment. Haven't captured anything I like yet but I'm going out tomorrow.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Things are worse than you think harry.

    I love pineapple on my pizza (guswife gets anchovies on 'em :puke ) & ive nearly crashed the truck several times over the past weeks looking at bloody egrets beside the road !
    Pineapple on pizza must have something to do with one's proximity to the Pacific Ocean. headscratch.gif


    I've almost run my car off the road a number of times as I watched various birds on the roadside. A few times at the wetlands I've almost ended up in the water when my attention was distracted.
    Harry
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  • Trish323Trish323 Registered Users Posts: 908 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    WOW harry! You can cry but I would be thrilled with anyone of these! Sounds to me like you need to have 2 cameras ready at all times! I am hoping to get up and out there in the early am (mon).clap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gif
  • ehughesehughes Registered Users Posts: 1,675 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    Harry, I mean this is the nicest possible way... I HATE YOU... :D

    Ed
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    ehughes wrote:
    Harry, I mean this is the nicest possible way... I HATE YOU... :D

    Ed
    Ed you need to get out more rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif come to la and go osprey hunting thumb.gif
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    Pineapple on pizza must have something to do with one's proximity to the Pacific Ocean. headscratch.gif

    Errrrr sorry it has everything to do with good taste :lol4
    rolleyes1.gif
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