White tailed eagle vs Grey heron

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NF Photo 131007 at Rysjön, Kvismaren

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That´s it folks. This event took only one minute. The heron was able to land in the grass and the eagle had to give it up. I think the heron was safe on the ground as it can use it´s beak as a weapon then.

As a photographers point of view it was a pity that they came in back light making most of the images dark and noisy. But I will probably never see something like this again so I´m pleased anyway.

I hope you liked it too.

People are a bit strange I think. I have posted two images before and everyone feel sorry for the heron. Of course it is bad fighting for ones life. But as a reality of life I feel sorry for the eagle. It got no dinner. There are maybe a thousand grey herons in the area but only one or two eagles. And everybody love eagles, don´t they?

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Sea Eagle grabs a Grey Heron

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Sea Eagle grabs a Grey Heron
White-tailed Eagle (H. albicilla)

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Ägretthäger - Egretta alba - The Great White Egret

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Ägretthäger - Egretta alba - The Great White Egret

NF Photo 131007, Kvismaren

NF Photo 131007, Rysjön, Kvismaren

This is the view from the tower I was on. It has 3 floors and I was on the top one. To get the images above I used my 400mm lens and added a 2x Tele Plus. It resulted in a 800mm lens. On top of that it was a hard wind shaking the tower. Luckily I was able to have a rather short shutter speed. But considered it is no wonder the images have a lot of noise. But I am happy, it was the first time I saw them in Sweden so I got a Swedish X. There are 2 egrets, a few grey herons and geese in the images. They are in the center of the larger view image.

There seem to be a lot of confusion about where it belongs. I found no less then 2 Latin names for it: Ardea alba, casmerodius albus and Egretta alba. The confusion seem to be if they are herons or not. They can probably figure it out with DNA tests.

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Havsörn - Haliaeetus albicilla - White-tailed Eagle /Sea Eagle

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Havsörn - Haliaeetus albicilla - White-tailed Eagle /Sea Eagle

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I was at Sjöholm to check out the Common snipes when the birds was disturbed. Looking up I had this beauty almost overhead. At first I thought it was a juvie but checking out the shots today I see it has the white tail. In the second shot, the shadow from the low sun, makes it look really weird in its head. I almost thought it was a Great Cormorant for a while. The belly and throat is in the sun but not the wings.

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Tretåig hackspett - Picoides tridactylus - Three-toed Woodpecker

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Tretåig hackspett - Picoides tridactylus - Three-toed Woodpecker

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This one should be a female as the top of the head is white. The male is light yellow on the top. I took these in teh end of april but just realized I had not posted them. Strange as it is a new one to my blog. I hope you like her. I do!

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