The Llano River Eagles 2013-2014
These photos were taken by Jim Baines on Nov. 20, 2013. Two eggs are in the nest.
The eaglets hatched early this year, sometime in mid-December. Photos taken 1/4/14, the eaglets look awkward and unsteady. Slideshow.
Jim had another opportunity to visit the nest 1/8/2014. Slideshow.
In this slideshow, taken 1/11/14, you can see how quickly these eaglets are growing. They will go from a hatchling to adult in just 12 weeks. They are still fuzzy grey but their wingspan is already quite impressive.
This slideshow was taken 1/26/14 and sent along with this note:
I arrived at 8:06 and departed the site at 10:06. There were a number of short flights by both birds in the the trees surrounding the nest area. Several small sticks were brought into the nest and one fish was delivered at 10:00. You can see one of the youngsters with good sized pieces in his mouth. The Red-tailed hawk made another appearance to the same tree as before. He loitered for a while as the youngsters watched from the nest intently. Neither adult seemed concerned about the hawk's presence.
The Caracara was spotted during my return trip home so throwing it in for "human interest" as it was feeding on roadkill on US 190 between Lampasas and Kempner. I think a lot of people don't realize they do that. I have see it so many times around Bertram area on FM 1174 enroute to Doeskin Ranch. Recently I observed a Caracara perched in a dead tree with two Black vultures.
A few of these were shot with a Nikon D200 w/200-400mm F4 and 1.4x Kenko Pro converter (825mm equiv). The remainder were shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ200 bridge camera wearing a Nikon TC-17ED 1.7x teleconverter adapted to it (1020mm equiv). It gives great results considering the 92 yards distance.
More next time!
Be safe! Happy shooting!
Jim
I arrived at 8:06 and departed the site at 10:06. There were a number of short flights by both birds in the the trees surrounding the nest area. Several small sticks were brought into the nest and one fish was delivered at 10:00. You can see one of the youngsters with good sized pieces in his mouth. The Red-tailed hawk made another appearance to the same tree as before. He loitered for a while as the youngsters watched from the nest intently. Neither adult seemed concerned about the hawk's presence.
The Caracara was spotted during my return trip home so throwing it in for "human interest" as it was feeding on roadkill on US 190 between Lampasas and Kempner. I think a lot of people don't realize they do that. I have see it so many times around Bertram area on FM 1174 enroute to Doeskin Ranch. Recently I observed a Caracara perched in a dead tree with two Black vultures.
A few of these were shot with a Nikon D200 w/200-400mm F4 and 1.4x Kenko Pro converter (825mm equiv). The remainder were shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ200 bridge camera wearing a Nikon TC-17ED 1.7x teleconverter adapted to it (1020mm equiv). It gives great results considering the 92 yards distance.
More next time!
Be safe! Happy shooting!
Jim
