Sky Watch Friday

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We recently had a trip to Pa. and while there had a couple of down days from business..so we went down to the Conowingo Dam in Md. to take some pictures of Eagles there...we arrived early and got a chance to photograph some of the Sunrise at the Dam.

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The Dam at beginning of Sunrise

Off in the distance...sunrise around the power lines


Power Towers surround the area

We didn't know it..but the Eagles don't usually arrive till around 9 AM or 10 AM so we just waited and watched the Gulls fishing in the water.

You can also skip on down to the two posts below to view some of the Eagles that we photographed.

Conowingo Dam Eagles-Part one

We recently returned from a trip to Pa. and while there we had a couple of down days from business.

We had heard of a Dam in Md. where you could see Eagles ..so we drove down to the Conowingo Dam in Md. which is right on route 1 going down from Pa.

Following are some photographs of Eagles that I took there..it will be in two seperate posts because of so many photo's.

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Conowingo Dam

Eagle in Flight

Isn't this fella just handsome !

"Where did it Go?"

"If I hold this pose any longer I will be crosseyed"

Two Eagles in their nest

A closer look at the Nesting Eagles

Please continue on to the next post for more Eagle Photographs

Conowingo Dam Eagles-Continued

Part Two Continued:
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Two Eagles in the nest

Ain't I cute?

Looking for Food

Is this my best side?

Who is that nut down there with the camera?

Watch as I fly away with a branch for my nest

Make it quick buster..I can't hang around much longer.

Continuing Hawk- Photo Experiments

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In the further pursuit of better photographs of my friend the Red Tailed Hawk.

I spotted my friend in the Tulip Popular Tree down the road about a 1/4 mile away and decided to again try to get some better photo's of him.

I grabbed the camera with the 70-300VR lens with the 2X adapter and headed down the road to a church parking lot just across the road from the tree..I pulled in there in my truck and parked parallel to the tree and rolled down the window and stuck the camera out the partly open window..resting the log lens on the window edge and started to photograph my elusive friend.

I was still at some distance from the tree across the road...I would say maybe about 1500 ft. away ...so the long lens was a big help in capturing some of the awesome beauty of my friend.

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There He is ..what a tease He is.

Turned his head looking for lunch..feathers blowing in the wind.


A bit of a closer look

He decided to fly off for a new hunting place.flying directly towards me

Zooming in for a closer shot.

Turning South West just before again turning back towards me.

I hope you enjoyed watching my friend along with me in my endeavours to better capture his awesome beauty with my camera..I hope he forgives me for disturbing his hunting..but I don't think he really minded.

Hawk Experiments/Photography

After being closed up in the cabin for 3 days due to snow, when the Sun came out today, I decided it was time to get out and do some photography.

I have been trying to get closer pictures of the Red Tailed Hawk that sits in a Tulip Popular Tree just about 1/4 mile down the road so I decided to try an experiment.

I grabbed a 2x adapter and attached it to my camera and then put on the 70-300VR lens , now you can't use Auto Focus with the 2x adapter that I have, so I set the VR to be ON and clicked it to Manual Focus.

Next I grabbed the Tripod and mounted the camera on it and set the camera to Manual Settings and played with settings till I got what I felt would make for good shots.

It was a very bright sunny day so I had to be careful when shooting not to let the Sun hit directly in the lens while shooting.

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This shot taken from our front porch

Zooming in to 300 with the 2x adapter



Cropping and editing


Moved down the driveway a bit for a closer look



After putting in Photo Shop, cropping and zooming in.

I hope you enjoyed my experiments and efforts to get better and closer Photographs of my Friend ..The Red Tailed Hawk.

Sky Watch Friday

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I am going to again try to post on Sky Watch as I did last week..but alas I could not post there as the page just came up blank when trying several times, and I see only one person came and looked at my post on my blog..thank you Sylvia.

Here we go again..trying again this week...as usual just click on any photo to get a life sized view.

Sky Watch is all about sky and clouds..so this week I am concentrating on clouds mostly...there is always an awesome array of clouds here in Western NC.

Sunrise in the East

Sunrise in the North


Sunrise in the SW

Sunrise in the NE

Now I want to take you along on a journey that I recently took down East of here and on the way back approaching the mountains again saw some awesome cloud formations that I would like to share with you as seem from my truck window.

I took all the following photo's with a point and shoot camera through the windshield of my truck.

Approaching the mountains

What a view and awesome cloud formations

Great clouds seen from the truck window

More cloud formations

Churning,Swiriling clouds

We hope you enjoyed our tour of the skies this week...please come again for a visit.

Sky Watch Friday

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Once again it is time for us to post our best of skies that we observed this week and share with all our participants the beauty of the of a sky in our area.

See below my contribution for this week...I will start with a Sunrise and end with the Sunset.

The Sunrise isn't as colorful as some I have posted, but I just love the cloud patterns we got this week, and want to share them with you.

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Sunrise in the East

Sunrise in the NE

Sunrise in the North

Sunrise in the NW

Sunrise in the South with valley fog.

Now I want to show you just a bit of the Sunset we had that same evening, we started with a great setting sun in the West, then I noticed Two Sun Dogs ( count them ) I was totally surprised...for this doesn't happen very often...I grabbed the camera once again and captured them in all their awesome beauty...one was at about 45 degrees to the South West of the setting sun , the other was about 45 degrees to the North West of the setting sun.

Sunset in the West

An Awesome Sun Dog in the South West

The other Sun Dog in the North West