and the Mongaup Area
Photos by Scott Rando
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An adult Bald Eagle with a prey item (a Gizzard Shad) 30 Dec 04
This juvenile is about 4 years old and developing the white head and tail of an adult, but still has mottling on the wings
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One Crow came into the tree while the Eagle was eating, but the Eagle wasn't bothered.
Umm...Good!
New Year's morning..Fishing is good and this Bald Eagle is checking out the river.
An adult flying over the Mongaup Blind before dusk 10 Jan 05
A sub-adult immature Flying over the Rio Dam 10 Jan 05
Some of the Eagles seen at Lackawaxen on 16 Jan 05
The week of 27 Jan. The plastic bottle was deposited by the Lackawaxen River on the ice bank. From a distance, the blue label looked like a NYDEC rivet band lying on the ice.
2 immature Bald Eagles over the Lackawaxen access performing for eagle watchers on 7 Jan. Immatures frequently engage in this behavior, and they rarely make physical contact.
This immature Bald Eagle is showing a light phase of a 3 year or so "mid-range" immature. This youngster appeared very prominent in the sunlight with blue sky in the background. The next big change in the plumage with this bird is when they get sub-adult plumage at around 4 years of age; a mottled white head and tail with the brown areas mottled with white. The head and tail will look like the bird flew through a coal chute! At around 5 years of age, there will be that final molt when they get rid of all the "coal dust". This is the full adult plumage.
These 2 young Bald Eagles were doing some mock jousting in mid-air as they seem to do when there is a few of them in the same airspace at once. There were 6 eagles in the air over Lackawaxen at once when this photo was taken. These 2 eagles appear to be 2 to 3 years old.
This adult is trying to find food, and this is probably why we had a lot of eagles flying over the water today. Flocks of Ring-beaked Gulls were working the river, indicating the possible release of water from the Wallenpaupack Dam, carrying down dead and stunned Alewives from the turbines.The gulls were on the food and the eagles were not about to miss out!
An Alewife was observed in an eagle's grasp on a photo. This is the initial snatch from the water
This is the alewife in the left foot 0.4 sec after the initial grab.
This is 1 second after the alewife was plucked from the river. This eagle has now holding it in his bill and preparing to eat it on the fly.
