Recently, we have been checking in a few times a week on the bald eagle family that's taken up residence near White Rock Lake. The adults, Nick and Nora, showed up a few years ago and have had a few attempts at nesting but based on what we've heard each nest ended up either blown down by a storm or was in an area with too much foot traffic. This year though, they took over what we understand was the nest of a red tailed hawk. The hawk's loss is the eagle's gain as they have two chicks in the nest. From talking with people who live nearby and have been monitoring the nest daily, it looks like the chicks should fledge in about 5-6 weeks. You can see movement in the next in this clip with one of the chicks stretching their wings.
This week instead of just taking binoculars with us, I took my Nikon D750 camera and captured this video. It's not great as the longest lens I have is 200mm and even with a 2X teleconverter and using the cropped (DX) mode while shooting, it's nowhere near the resolution and sharpness of images being shared online but some of the folks who shoot the eagles regularly. Having a 1000mm lens (even a 500mm lens with the 2X TC) sound tempting but that would be a big investment and I don't often shoot subjects that would benefit from that long of a lens.
Instead, we'll continue following the other folks who post such amazing photos of this bald eagle family.
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