A raptor pushing off into flight near Ogden, Utah

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Brigham City, Utah

Lift Off

We were barely a quarter of the way round the loop road when we spotted them out in the field — two bald eagles, and not another vehicle in sight — so Dalton and I were out of the car with cameras before we’d properly thought it through. This one gave us a few minutes before it went, and the take-off is this photograph.

Late January is the reason we were there at all. The eagles come into northern Utah in numbers through January and February, and we’d driven up from St. George specifically for it, staying with friends and running out to the refuge repeatedly across a long weekend. We counted six that day and five somewhere else the next. People talk about far larger concentrations in past years, though I’ve never seen those numbers myself.

Nikon Z 7II · Nikkor Z 180-600mm + Z TC-1.4x · 840mm · f/9 · 1/4000 sec · ISO 2200

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