Wedge Tailed Eagle, but my photos are crap

I am so disappointed, I wish I knew how to take better photos
I had these 2 wedge tailed eagles flying overhead, one even landed in my paddock with an ibis chick, it eventually had to leave the chick behind because the magpies were harrassing it so much. It would've been the most fantastic photo opportunity but I wasted it. I am crap, if anyone can give me some advice on how to get better photos please fire away.
Taken with a 400D and the 70-200
Heavily cropped

You need to compensate for the sky fooling the meter and expose for the birds, plus 1-2 stops or shoot manual, a tip is to meter an average scene note the exposure and use that as a base for settings. Also shooting RAW enables a bit of tweaking afterwards.

I don't see any photo's here...