I went out early, despite the dull sky and unpromising outlook. Five minutes beyond "city limits" (go ahead, laugh), there was a Golden Eagle atop a power pole.
I stopped. It flew. Sometimes they fly toward me but usually they don't, and so I shot two frames of its butt end receding, and figured I had missed it. But... no.
It circled over the nearby field, and only then did I spot the second eagle. And they rose up together in what was probably a courtship display, although it looks like a confrontation. I've witnessed this before. I've seen them lock talons in mid-air, just like Bald Eagles do on the west coast.
I think the female is the larger bird on the right. She wasn't having any of it, maybe because they were too low to lock talons and do their aerial dance, or maybe she had a headache. At any rate, her response was a definitive "No!" But they flew away in tandem, so I believe there is hope; after all, it is eagle mating season.
A great start to the day, for me if not for the male eagle. Later there were pronghorn, bison, prairie dogs, other eagles, and two species of hawk, but nothing as exciting as this. There will be more from this sequence when I find time to get to the processing - but I'm kinda jammed up this week with some maintenance work on my house and pulling together photos for a magazine article scheduled for the summer, deadline mid-April. When spring arrives following a long winter, everything happens at once...
Re. the square formatting, it is my least favourite crop for wildlife shots, but the only one that worked for this shot.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2025 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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