*Warning, the last image on the page gets a little more graphic, for those that won't like that...nothing too obvious anyway*   Duck, duck,..............duck! This particular image there was evidently some spray left in the air towards the bottom. They are just illuminated differently. The ice now has a lot of water on/splashing over it.

I should count all those just to see how many that is. Should! One could do it with the full sized image, it would just be rather distant to something fun.

Ok, duck, duck,.........goose for this one. A few Canadians can be seen.

Running out of ice. It was just impressive as hell to see this place turning back to water in one afternoon. It was very comical to zoom in 10x on the live view/lcd, while at 400mm, and watch the ducks sliding around on the ice. Their bright red or orange feet were slipping all over.

Waves and waves of snow geese returning from the north, sometime around noon. It's interesting they return at noon today and not at all the day before.

Ok, so maybe it gets a little graphic before the last image. It got really amazing right now. The one eagle lands here on the ice right in front of me. It wasn't long till other eagles discovered he had a duck with him. At first it was just one adult bald eagle that landed next to this one. He was interesting, since he wanted some, but didn't want to take it from the younger one. Instead he slowly crept closer. That was funny, as at times he looked like he was about to do the splits. That and the wind was blowing him north as he stood on the ice.

Now it's as if the eagle is trying to hide his food under his tail/rear. Nothing to see here fellas, move along.

This is why it was getting really amazing. This duel of eagles was happening right in front of me on the ice. You could hear the eagle calls over and over, which are rather unique and distinct. I had my camera on the tripod(doing everything I could to assure sharp images) using live view zoomed in 10x to focus just right on those eagles, then all the sudden there are more eagles flying over and stirring up this group of ducks. I kept waiting for the eagles near me to do something, so I didn't want to take the camera off the tripod and shoot the other scene. But finally I had to snatch it up and shoot it. Then of course the group of eagles in front of me take off.

What two of them do is play follow the leader, round and round this group of trees right by me. Over and over they'd fly practically right over my head. This one above really isn't even cropped in, just a hair. You can see the duck he's carrying, and how, in his talons. Rather sick I know. I was amazed just how long that other one would try and steal it away. I kept thinking, dude, you're going to use up more energy than you'll get. That and why not just go get a duck for yourself! I wonder how often they will just go grab a healthy duck compared to how long they'll look for an injured or dead one. Anyway, one last page, with not as graphic images... on Page 3 here. Massive amounts of snow geese on that page.