I admit, this is a terrible image quality wise.  It was shot with a super zoom bridge camera because the doggone thing can zoom out to 1365 mm.  This bald eagle was in the tallest evergreen tree and my Tamron 150-600 wouldn’t come close to capturing a usable shot.  I often take my super zoom camera along on bird watching hikes just because of the reach that I am able to achieve.  Not to mention, it’s so much lighter to carry than my “big camera”, long lens and tripod.  I can photograph the birds and get close up images that I can later ID at home using my birding reference books.  The moral of the story is that the best camera is the one that helps you to capture a memory.  In this case I opted for less quality, but a vivid image of the bird that I watched in the tree for a long time this morning.  Isn’t this a stunning bald eagle?

Here’s another image from last week’s visit to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.  I love seeing all of the shorebirds that are so different from what we see in the mountains of Pennsylvania!  This one looks like a sandpiper, but not sure which one – there are many!