Mother Bald Eagle tears off bits of fish and feeds it to her young Eaglet. She has two chicks in the nest. The other chick was further back and would pop it's head up for a share of fish every so often. At this early age, the eaglets are totally reliant on Mother and Father for their nutritional needs.

Sometimes karma works in your favor. When I arrived at this spot in the Delaware Water Gap area of N.E. Pennsylvania, I sat my tripod down, made my settings on the camera based upon past visits to this nest and within 15 seconds (literally), the Mother Eagle flew in with a fish for the kids. Sometimes you wait all weekend for that sort of thing to happen and sometimes you wait 15 seconds. After feeding the kids, Mom hopped up on a branch which was obscured by evergreen leaves and the kids sank low in the nest. The Father was out and about and I never did see him while I was there. This is the same nest where I took this shot from last season. Mom had two chicks last year just like this season.

For more information on Bald Eagles, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.

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Make:	NIKON CORPORATION
Model:	NIKON D300
Exposure:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture:	f/7.1
ISO Speed:	320
Focal Length:	500 mm
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