Bald Eagles of Homer,Alaska with Charles Glatzer 2007 Photo Gallery by Tom Merigan at pbase.com

Bald Eagles of Homer,Alaska with Charles Glatzer 2007

I visited Jean Keene's house on Homer spit recently this winter. She is the 84 year old women who has fed the eagles daily for the winter months for over the last 20 years and the reason why they hang out in Homer in the winter. Approximately 300 birds now eat about 500 pounds of fish daily and the 9am one hour feeding attracts birders and bird photographer from around the world. But all this will end in 2010 as the town council has outlawed even her from this practice because other people were not careful about their fish scraps and created a problem for the town. As you will see with my pictures it has been a bonanza for those who want closeup pictures of the bald eagle and it is estimated that 80% of the pictures in print of this species were taken here.Charles Glatzer is the Master Photographer who guided and taught us much about light and action photography on the trip.

Mountains surrounding Homer with alpenglow at dawn	Parking place where I sat on the open trunk of the car from 7-10am to take my photos	As the sun came further up and it neared 9am	Beautiful mountains surround Homer	Eagles gather at dawn with the dark mottled ones being juveniles
Flying in from across the sound	Flying in from the north	Perched expectantly	Two waiting for their share	Waiting for food
Bald Eagle	A juvenile waits	Watching from above	Watching from the light post	Perched on rocks
Watching from the shore	Waiting on the ice	Starting to get near her house	Massed near the porch where the fish are thrown from and ready for food	Interesting places abound on the spit
Homer is a fishing town	Bald Eagle about to take off	Bald Eagle in flight	Bald Eagle banking	Bald Eagle in flight with fish
Bald Eagle in flight	Bald Eagle in flight	Kiting Bald Eagle	Bald Eagle in flight	Bald Eagle in flight
Bald Eagle in flight	Bald eagle pair flying	Bald Eagle in flight	Bald Eagle in flight	Bald Eagle in flight
Bald Eagle in flight	Bald Eagle pair in flight	Fishermen going out for halibit	Freighters going out	Sunset begins
Sunset	Bald Eagle	Bald Eagle	Bald Eagle	Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle	Bald Eagle,backlit	Bald Eagle landing on ice	Bald Eagle landing	Bald eagle coming down
Bald Eagle Landing	Bald Eagle Landing	Bald Eagle lands on ice	Bald Eagle landing	Bald Eagle landing
Bald Eagle landing	Dirty faced Bald Eagle landing	Bald Eagle landing	Bald Eagle landing	Bald Eagle landing
Bald Eagle upset	Bald Eagle putting away a mouthful of fish	Bald Eagle landed	Bald Eagle,juvenile	Bald Eagle juvenile in the air
Kiting juvenile Bald Eagle	Bald Eagle,juvenile in flight	Bald Eagle,juvenile landing	Bald Eagle,juvenile completing landing	Bald Eagle,juvenile in flight

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Andy		07-May-2010 09:59
VERY NICE PICS.......

John R Marshall		23-Mar-2007 19:44
It's a real shame the town councel has had to outlaw feeding these beautiful birds. Now that they've become dependant on hand outs, many of them will probably starve in the first winter it takes affect.

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