Sea Eagle, Grrrrrr

Well I spent hours hiking up sand hills and cliffs today looking for a Sea Eagle, I was most upset to not see a single one after so much hard work . I got home with blisters, cuts, knocks and pulled something in my shoulder. All I was able to get was these guys. Shame as I was really excited and have yet to capture a Sea Eagle still .

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If i got a shot like that of an echidna I'd be tickeld pink! Where were you searching for the Sea Eagle?

Newland head national park, it's down just a few mins drive from Victor Harbour. I've been told by a few birders that the is always one down there and I've been down there a couple of times now searching. Spent the whole day today without any luck. Did see alot of New hollands and heaps of Silver eyes about, few gulls and one Kestrel.

We went down Victor early this morn really hoping to see a whale, but guessed we missed those also lol, heard they were down there yesterday.

they're beautiful

Wow, I didn't know echidnas were anywhere to be found. Thanks for sharing.

Cool looking critter here in the fist image wish you would have left it's tail in the frame if it has one Looks cut off to me, the little swallow like bird is a nice capture here you can see the eye and the details look sharp.

Here I am in the desert and am yet to see an Echidna

Sweet

Thanks all for the great comments, Eric you have a good eye, it's a welcome swallow. I did a little sharpening on that capture though. Fast lil buggers they are lol. Sorry about the Echidna, the framing was bad but they have no tail. Well they kind of do but it's that small it looks like they don't. I'll have to try to get a better framing next time.

Peter, I thought you would have had pleanty of them out your way. I see them mostly in the mornings or late afternoons near shrubs.

I've been trying not to centre everything for better compositions but I seem to be cutting off alot of things lol. Maybe I should centre for the capture and then crop my compositions. Any ideas or suggestions on this would be great. I was still sad I didn't find any Sea Eagles

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Thanks all for the great comments, Eric you have a good eye, it's a welcome swallow. I did a little sharpening on that capture though. Fast lil buggers they are lol. Sorry about the Echidna, the framing was bad but they have no tail. Well they kind of do but it's that small it looks like they don't. I'll have to try to get a better framing next time.

Peter, I thought you would have had pleanty of them out your way. I see them mostly in the mornings or late afternoons near shrubs.

I've been trying not to centre everything for better compositions but I seem to be cutting off alot of things lol. Maybe I should centre for the capture and then crop my compositions. Any ideas or suggestions on this would be great. I was still sad I didn't find any Sea Eagles

Nothing wrong with cropping an image some although keeping the image as close to full size as possible in the frame will help with you only needed to crop to standard size for printing. Now if you crop an image a lot then you do end up with less pixels and will not be able to make as large of a print. So maybe center and crop untill you get the feel for the compositional part.