Pretty sure this goose was already dead too. I think they counted 167 eagles here around now. Just too bad so many were so far out there.

Here is my buddy eagle again. Had he not been here, I'd hardly have any closer shots. These here are cropped in a bit. Nasty you can see the corn in there.

It is crazy how nice this eagle looked sitting near the shore a couple days prior, with his unique two eye colors. Right now he simply looks evil. Nictating membrane over his eyes again.

Now this isn't cropped in. It's pretty crazy at full size. What I started doing was having the focus just right, and then putting it back on manual. Then I'd wait for them to jump up. I'd fire off a quick 3 or 4, with my finger ready on the focus switch, throwing it back on auto for after he was in flight. Otherwise you just couldn't be sure you were getting him as he took off, and not refocusing on the ice behind him, if you had the focus point off to the side at all.

This was a much later day, after most all of the ducks and geese took off. Eagles were still there but way off shore. I had just blown two options with an eagle coming back to trees on shore, since they crossed down the road too far, where I'd just came. As I was setting up just before this, I see the tripod leg sliding down. I then see the eagle coming. Great. So here I was with this 12 lb lens on the tripod, leaning it over on two legs trying to balance it and track this eagle at 840mm. It is a lot harder than I bet most imagine. If you don't keep him right behind your focus point it will go way out of focus on you. And you cant have the lens whipping around if you want it sharp. Even with a gimbal head it can be pretty tough to get them at anything near filling the frame. I had to crop in just a bit on these.

Wasn't much cropping in on this one. He wasn't extremely sharp either though.

Massive crop in on this one.

Almost no cropping in on the above. This is by far the hardest one to get, directly above you. It is because they are passing you by much quicker at that angle than coming at you head on down low. Then add in it is awkward pointing up like that.

Now this was a little crazy. I saw this goose out there, on the left, with a broken wing. That is the sort of thing these eagles love. They spook up flocks of geese looking for the wounded still sitting in the water. Seeing this guy out there by himself, with an eagle nearby, I figured he was toast. I thought, you'd better hide or at least start walking away from this eagle and his food.

Before long more eagles showed up. This wounded goose then takes it upon himself to walk over to them! Just look at the eagles, lol, "Are you stupid or something." Maybe his strategy was to just act crazy.

More eagles! I think six now. One of them sitting right by him had been giving him that look. Like the gangster movie long stare deal, like you aren't welcome here goose. Then the wind would hit the goose and he'd fall over and then look very much like what he was, wounded. Each time that would happen I thought they'd pounce on him. This one in the air gives a weak attempt at it.

Grabs him and takes him down. I thought, you dumb goose, you walked over there.

Look at him go now though! He thinks he is boss. I wonder if he knew the dead goose, as often you'll see a pair of geese hanging out all day. But I also saw him trying to save a leg he was chewing on later, so maybe he wanted some of the goose too. Later an eagle stole that leg from him btw.

Amazing. He's now pretty much standing over the dead goose, with 6 eagles right there wanting to eat. Notice his right wing hanging out there, that is how it always was, surely broken.

He now has 8 bald eagles around him.

Check this out, he picked this fight right here/above. The eagle was just standing there and he went over and started giving him hell, honking at him.

He then did a karate like chop thing. He isn't just slipping here. He had jumped up and tried to kick the eagle with his feet. This went on long enough for me to get bored with it and go elsewhere. Much later in the day I saw that same goose out there on his own, alive and well(minus the broken wing).