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Originally Posted by Itsed65
Nice one Dave. I saw a fawn today, but no bucks. I did however see my very first bald eagle in the wild, standing in a tree at the Colusa NWR (about 60 miles north of Sacramento). Another instance of needing more reach than I have, but I will see how the pics came out once I get them all downloaded. We used 3 different cameras and about 5 different lens combos, so it will be interesting. The bird just sat in the tree for the whole half hour we were there and didn't budge.
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Congrats on a first wild sighting.
Eagles perch, eat, screw and sleep in random order throughout the day. When there's just one, your odds of catching it doing something interesting are really tough since the perching takes up about 90% of the day most days. If you can figure out where it fishes, then you might can be on the flight path as it move from its perch to its hunting ground of vice versa. The movement is most likely to occur at dawn and dusk.
I luck out getting five bucks hanging together and jumping the fence close enough to sun up to get decent light.
Dave