Waxwings on my home patch

Some shots of the 2 waxwings which were showing well on the berry bushes in a local garden this morning.
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Waxwing

Waxwings

Waxwings

Waxwing

Golden Eagle in Yellowstone Nat. Park.

Golden Eagle

As the weather here in Cornwall has been atrocious I thought I'd dig out a few more images from my trip to the States a few weeks ago.

We were in the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone when we came across 2 Golden eagles feeding on something on the far edge of the river.

There were fishermen in the river but the birds seemed to be more concerned with fending off a couple of magpies which were giving them grief.

The river was quite wide and thus I was forced to use a 1.4 x converter on my 500 mm lens, so not the highest quality images I've taken. 

It was also 12:25 just after mid-day, so not light conducive to good photography but when a subject like this pops up in front, you have to take your chances!

Golden Eagle

Golden Eagle

Bald Eagle - Grand Teton N.P. Wyoming.

Bald eagle

I've been wanting to upload these images since getting back from the USA but as I'd entered one of them in the Cornwall Wildlife Trust photo competition I thought I'd best leave it until they'd been judged.
I shouldn't have worried as it was passed over anyway!

I came across this young eagle perched in a tree in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
I reckon it's probably a third year bird.
It proceeded to catch a fish and fly to a sand bank.

By the time I'd moved my 25 foot motorhome off the road it had eaten the fish and was in the river drinking. I then managed to grab a few shots as it flew away downstream.

Bald eagle

Bald eagle

Bald eagle

Bald eagle

Bald eagle