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| Salt Springs Run Bald Eagle |
Had a bittersweet paddle at the waters of the Salt Spring Run today. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. Let us see. Rain, battery one dead after 10 minutes, battery 2 going dead after maybe 20 minutes. Good thing that did not go too far on the Salt Springs Run. A pair of Bald Eagles made it fun for me.
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| Eastern Phoebe |
Put In / Take Out:
Salt Springs Marina. Check the link for information about location and fees.
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| Osprey |
The forecast had a 15% chance of rain in the area. Not sure why I am even surprised that not long after I did put in it came down hard. Luckily for me I had decided to stay close to the marina just in case so spent the one hour rain delay under a roof in the marina and not on the broad run. My first battery died shortly after the delay. So replaced it and kept paddling towards Lake George, which was the original plan. Here are some pics...
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| This is how 15% chance of rain looked like!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Sandhill Crane |
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| Great Egret |
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| Great Egret |
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| Turkey |
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| Green Heron (used flash with this one) |
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| Green Heron |
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| Osprey |
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| Osprey |
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| Juvenile Green Heron |
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| Eastern Phoebe |
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| Eastern Phoebe |
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| Belted Kingfisher |
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| Belted Kingfisher |
Was going down the run when saw a Bald Eagle drying its wings, something new for me as I had never seen an eagle doing that. Was shooting pics to it when realized my battery indicator was flashing a low battery warning. What? Really? Decided to stay with the eagle for the duration. It flew to another tree where its companion was drying its wings too. So had a two for one until one left and then the other one.
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Bald Eagles |
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| Bald Eagles |
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| Flying |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Bald Eagle |
With my battery agonizing decided to go back to the marina and call it a day. Here is how it looked by that time. Absolutely stunning...
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| Salt Springs Run |
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| Salt Springs Run |
And this is it for this very short paddle. Hope you enjoy the few pics, or the many pics from the few subjects. Thanks for coming and hope you return for our next post. We will be sharing with you more Views From Our Kayak.
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| Eagle Pair at Salt Springs Run |
These are beautiful photos. How close were you to your subjects? What lens did you use? I've just added a 150-600 Tamron lens to my Canon but I couldn't hold it steady on a Kayak. What did you do to ge such great pictures?
ReplyDeleteI was not close to the subjects. Cannot do it as the lens is a 400mm fixed, no image stabilization. Do not know how far I was. Maybe 150 ft min for the first eagle and much farther fro the eagle pair. I had room to move closer to the first one as it was at a tree right in the water but did not want to disturb it so stayed back. Did crop the pics at home.
DeleteAm glad you liked the pics. Thanks!!!!!
Look at the bright side. Rain kept people off the Run. That's what I told myself as I got soaked on the Silver River.... great photos.
ReplyDeleteI barely escaped this one. That happens at the Silver River and I would have a lot to explain to my wife.
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