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Following my green woodpecker triumph from a few weeks back, here's a golden eagle.
I'd like to have had a more interesting or just not totally white sky, but you've got to do the best with what you're given. In my case I happened to have my 400 2.8 and 1.4x attached (unwieldy for wildlife watching is an understatement, and it scared pretty much everything away), as I was trying to photograph a distant sea eagle. Lo and behold I turn back to check where my pal Mark is, and this golden eagle flies straight overhead, flapping lazily like they do.
I was on a wildlife tour of Mull with this chap, who certainly knew his stuff. It was more a way to see the island with a view to getting some good landscape photography locations than anything else, as I'm not that much into bird watching at all. He managed to put us on good terms with a whole bunch of beasties including otters, deer, seals etc. In fact, he was good enough to compile a list which I've put at the end of this post. I was particularly pleased with the dipper, which I spotted, but again the darned thing flew off when I swung the 400mm into view.
We saw a couple of buzzards as well. The first was just too silhouetted, so I made it into a silhouette which I quite like. The other (at least I think it's a buzzard) was a few days later with a 70-200 2.8 and was partially obscured but made a decent context shot.
Overall, a top trip, with some excellent landscape locations which I'm just starting to edit my way through now. If you're into bird watching, I'm guessing Mull is an excellent location. Here's that list...
Great black backed Gull
Herring Gull
Common Gull
Black headed Gull
Grey Heron
Hooded Crow
Oystercatcher
White tailed Sea Eagle (5)
Golden Eagle
Wigeon
Red breasted Merganser
Greylag Geese
Raven
Goldeneye
Mute Swan
Little Grebe
Buzzard
Shelduck
Great northern Diver
Mallard
Teal
Curlew
Blue Tit
Coal tit
Dipper
Cormorant
Shag
Woodpigeon
Chaffinch
Blackbird
Other species seen
Otters (2)
Red Deer
Fallow Deer
Common Seal
I'd like to have had a more interesting or just not totally white sky, but you've got to do the best with what you're given. In my case I happened to have my 400 2.8 and 1.4x attached (unwieldy for wildlife watching is an understatement, and it scared pretty much everything away), as I was trying to photograph a distant sea eagle. Lo and behold I turn back to check where my pal Mark is, and this golden eagle flies straight overhead, flapping lazily like they do.
I was on a wildlife tour of Mull with this chap, who certainly knew his stuff. It was more a way to see the island with a view to getting some good landscape photography locations than anything else, as I'm not that much into bird watching at all. He managed to put us on good terms with a whole bunch of beasties including otters, deer, seals etc. In fact, he was good enough to compile a list which I've put at the end of this post. I was particularly pleased with the dipper, which I spotted, but again the darned thing flew off when I swung the 400mm into view.
We saw a couple of buzzards as well. The first was just too silhouetted, so I made it into a silhouette which I quite like. The other (at least I think it's a buzzard) was a few days later with a 70-200 2.8 and was partially obscured but made a decent context shot.
Overall, a top trip, with some excellent landscape locations which I'm just starting to edit my way through now. If you're into bird watching, I'm guessing Mull is an excellent location. Here's that list...
Great black backed Gull
Herring Gull
Common Gull
Black headed Gull
Grey Heron
Hooded Crow
Oystercatcher
White tailed Sea Eagle (5)
Golden Eagle
Wigeon
Red breasted Merganser
Greylag Geese
Raven
Goldeneye
Mute Swan
Little Grebe
Buzzard
Shelduck
Great northern Diver
Mallard
Teal
Curlew
Blue Tit
Coal tit
Dipper
Cormorant
Shag
Woodpigeon
Chaffinch
Blackbird
Other species seen
Otters (2)
Red Deer
Fallow Deer
Common Seal