I didn’t expect to get anything — I was just taking a quick look at two spots before I had to be in Lebanon. But I got lucky and only needed to spend two minutes at each of the spots.
I checked out the Pompy area, and as soon as I drove in an eagle launched from a tree above the road. I stopped, rolled down my window, grabbed my camera, and started shooting as it circled the broad expanse of the river. Here are four of the photos from a 17-shot sequence. I believe it is a second year bird.
I made a panorama from the 17 photos. It is below, but if you CLICK HERE or click the image below you will be taken to a page where you can zoom into this image, pan around, and examine each of the eagles up close.
From there I headed south thinking I might have enough time to see if I could spot the eagle’s nest on a NH island. But I was very low on gas and decided I needed to turn around before reaching the end of the dead end road. Across from where I made my turn, an eagle sat in a tree on the VT side of the Connecticut River. I parked, got out of my car and took some handheld photos from behind it. The eagle posed for me for a bit over a minute and then launched. Here is a sequence.