The driving up to the pass wasn't too bad, until one of the complete dickwits who thought I wasn't going fast enough and needed to pass me was driving an HGV. That sprayed a pile of brown slush onto my windscreen, where it instantly froze, and then I couldn't see too well. Which helped a lot.
There will be no eagle pictures, sorry. Unlike bald eagles, which will sit low in a tree by the roadside and glare balefully at you, golden eagles are always halfway up the mountain on the other side of the valley. It takes a scope to get a good look, and the cameras just don't make it!
I didn't even take pictures of all the beautiful canyons and ridges and valleys, because if you're framing pictures, you're not looking hard enough for birds to count XD
Crow family birds will hassle raptors for no good reason at all, just because they don't like them, though they will hassle them more when they might drop food. There was a young bald eagle yesterday being harrassed by half a dozen ravens, while it was just cruising the skies above the valley.
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There will be no eagle pictures, sorry. Unlike bald eagles, which will sit low in a tree by the roadside and glare balefully at you, golden eagles are always halfway up the mountain on the other side of the valley. It takes a scope to get a good look, and the cameras just don't make it!
I didn't even take pictures of all the beautiful canyons and ridges and valleys, because if you're framing pictures, you're not looking hard enough for birds to count XD
Crow family birds will hassle raptors for no good reason at all, just because they don't like them, though they will hassle them more when they might drop food. There was a young bald eagle yesterday being harrassed by half a dozen ravens, while it was just cruising the skies above the valley.