Yes, I was fooled by my fast and dirty way of identifying birds. I did a google image search for bald eagle underside view, and a picture of a turkey vulture came up, along with several legitimate eagles. I should have noticed that the head had to be small to be hidden in that view. But all entertaining. And now we know that while turkey vultures are hideous when seen from above or in profile, they’re rather attractive from below. He was a great flier as well. Soaring for quite some time without moving his wings.
Paul > On Apr 9, 2017, at 12:10 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > > A bald eagle's wings would have all black feathers; white on the head & > tail, but not on the wings. The white tail feathers would be spread out > more. > > I think others have already identified it as a turkey vulture. > > On 4/8/2017 17:18, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> I saw some kind of Raptor circling several hundred feet above my yard this >> afternoon. I pulled my camera off the tripod and did a handheld shot with my >> 150-450 and 1.4X converter mounted — about 630 mm. Shutter speed was at >> 1,000th. Turned focus manually to infinity and I think the camera locked on >> as well. But the result is less than 20% of frame. I assumed it was a hawk, >> but when I rendered it I could see if it’s no hawk i know. Matches up well >> to bad eagle underside pics on the web. Fun stuff. >> >> https://www.photo.net/photo/18372981/bald-eagle >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
