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A juvenile perches patiently in a tree on a cold winter day. (All the images were made on Prince Edward Island, Canada)
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A juvenile grabs a small fish in its talons and will fly up into a tree for a well deserved snack.
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The small fish will make a tasty meal.
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An eagle fishing has to take care not to get its wings too wet or it may have trouble flying.
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Soaring above the river with the trees as an audience.
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Resting, but always on the lookout. I don't think anything escapes the gaze of a bald eagle.
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Doing some acrobatics to line up for a landing on a tree branch.
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Dinner is served!
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Taking its prize to a quiet place to eat it.
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Skimming the water looking for a fish.
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An eagle can exert enormous power in its talons and too tight a squeeze results in a mangled fish.
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I don't know what are the odds of an eagle snagging a fish, but it seems like that were catching fish in a barrel.
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Another one caught.
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A mature eagle with its catch of an eel.
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There is nothing more beautiful than watching an eagle.
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Ask long as there is a run of the small fish called gaspereaux on the Winter River there will be eagles.
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Two adults hang out at the outflow from a pond in the Prince Edward Island national park in the hopes of a fish meal.
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A family hangs out in a tree in Murray River, PEI where most of it is ice free for a lot of the winter and where water fowl feed. The ice will be covered by the carcasses of dead birds.
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Two juveniles hanging out at a small pond.
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A mature and a juvenile perched above the river.
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Landing in an evergreen tree.
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The old tree does not seem to be the most comfortable of perches.
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Caught another one.
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Homing in on a fish meal.
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Getting ready to land on a branch.
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C'mon move on. That's where I want to land.
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Bald eagles are magnificent to watch as they soar on the air currents.
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Flying off after failing to snag a fish.
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Playing or fighting?
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A juvenile rips open a Canada goose it just killed.
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A juvenile comes back for a second meal of a dead Canada goose.