Alaska: Bald eagle portraits
Dec 27, 2011 20:27:39 #
This is my topic #100 in two a half months of UH membership. The tally is 95 picture topics created with about 600 photos and 5 topics in the Forum. The line of my photos is not getting any shorter, will have to go for topic #200 I guess. Please bear with me....
Thanks for your support and kind words. Ivan.
Thanks for your support and kind words. Ivan.
Dec 27, 2011 20:29:26 #
Dec 27, 2011 20:30:25 #
very interesting....am i correct in thinking that the first two are juvies and the last an adult. If so do the eye colors also change with maturity.....????
Dec 27, 2011 20:32:41 #
Dang..just when i say its impossible for you to show us something better you just up and post again. These are great!!!
Dec 27, 2011 20:34:38 #
Dec 27, 2011 20:35:21 #
Rick Meade
Loc: Sarasota,Florida/Linville Falls NC
Ivan, again beautiful, thanks. I'm for seeing them all!
Dec 27, 2011 20:37:03 #
rivernan wrote:
very interesting....am i correct in thinking that the first two are juvies and the last an adult. If so do the eye colors also change with maturity.....????
Yes, you are right. Maturity is reached in 4-5 years when the head and a dozen of tail feathers turn white. The beak goes from black to yellow and the eyes from brown to yellow. Strangely enough the raptor shrinks in size after reaching the adulthood. You can compare the head changes on the enclosed photo.
Thanks,Ivan.
Dec 27, 2011 20:40:17 #
alaskan wrote:
This is my topic #100 in two a half months of UH membership. The tally is 95 picture topics created with about 600 photos and 5 topics in the Forum. The line of my photos is not getting any shorter, will have to go for topic #200 I guess. Please bear with me....
Thanks for your support and kind words. Ivan.
Thanks for your support and kind words. Ivan.
Ivan
Eagles are my favorite birds!!!! I only have one thing to say FANTASTIC!!!!!
Dec 27, 2011 20:41:41 #
amazing...new about most but never really noticed before the eyes....Do you know of any other creatures whose eyes change colors as they mature?
I have seen the hair on my head go from very dark to quite quite light...but my eyes are still brown.
I have seen the hair on my head go from very dark to quite quite light...but my eyes are still brown.
Dec 27, 2011 21:08:26 #
rivernan wrote:
amazing...new about most but never really noticed before the eyes....Do you know of any other creatures whose eyes change colors as they mature?
I have seen the hair on my head go from very dark to quite quite light...but my eyes are still brown.
I have seen the hair on my head go from very dark to quite quite light...but my eyes are still brown.
As I looked back from old photos, my yeyes were a deep rich brown when young, now 61 laps around the sun they are more subdued brown. I have also noticed my sandy brown hair has disapperaed like Houdini ;\
Dec 27, 2011 21:08:26 #
rivernan wrote:
amazing...new about most but never really noticed before the eyes....Do you know of any other creatures whose eyes change colors as they mature?
I have seen the hair on my head go from very dark to quite quite light...but my eyes are still brown.
I have seen the hair on my head go from very dark to quite quite light...but my eyes are still brown.
As I looked back from old photos, my yeyes were a deep rich brown when young, now 61 laps around the sun they are more subdued brown. I have also noticed my sandy brown hair has disapperaed like Houdini ;\
Dec 27, 2011 21:22:56 #
Alaskan those are fantastic shots. Do you have any of them in flight? I'm a budding birder send us more...but even better give us some tips!
Dec 27, 2011 21:39:28 #
Alaskan, as always beautiful shots. I try not to miss your posts. So, you have other pictures to share?
.........................I'm waiting.
.........................I'm waiting.
Dec 27, 2011 21:45:51 #
Guess we'll have to suffer thru all your great photographs. I'm with you all the way.
Dec 27, 2011 22:07:28 #
great stuff, Ivan, as usual! love the third one especially. i'm an eagle lover myself, but we don't have near as many of 'em down here as you do... *sigh*
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