Ealges in the Oyster beds

When the tide goes out in Puget Sound the action typically begins if you know where to find it. And Bill Dewey had the right read on it this past Saturday morning. Seabeck is a small community over on the Olympic Peninsula and when the tide goes out there it exposes the oyster beds. As the tide goes out it forms little pools of water among the oyster beds which fish and sculpins become trapped in.
Living on the Seattle side of the sound, Bill took the early morning ferry over and picked up Gale and I drove around through Tacoma, which is about an hour and half drive.
So the morning gathering had Bill, Gale, Morrie Carter and myself all setup waiting for the tide to continue outward and the eagles to start coming in. It wasn’t long and the action began, with eagles chasing one another and fighting over fish, with the GBH’s keeping out of their way and doing OK themselves; even had a Kingfisher hover over the oyster beds a couple times.

Here's one of the many sequences I shot on Saturday.

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The eagle has the fish/sculpin in its beak and is transferring it to its talons mid air.
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Louie

 

Thanks Mao. This morning was fun from all stand points. Getting a few shots in while out having a good times with friends is just frosting on the cake.

Thanks Raymond, I appreciate it.

HI Jim and thanks very much. The light was pretty bad for most of the morning's shoot, it became sunny about the time I had to leave, but by then the tide was way out the eagles were out there too.

Thanks Art.

Thanks Wade. I actually shot most of these with the D300 but a few with the D3. They were quite a ways out so I reverted back to the D300 for a few shots. Love the D3 though.

 

Thanks Randy for your generous comments.

Don't know what to say here Ron about your not being able to see them. BTW, where have you been, haven't seen much of you for quite some time now.

Louie

 

Hi Jessie, thanks for such kind words. You have been posting some outstanding stuff from Viera, wish I were there about now things are kind of winding down a bit around here.

Thanks Andreas. You've got to come down and do some shooting over there before it's too late.

Thanks Tim. For sure give me a call when you get anywhere around the neck of the woods.

Thanks David, I will until they quit showing up.

Sounds like a great trip, I've been there once and it was fantastic for sure.

Thanks Jimmy.