{"id":13287,"date":"2014-08-25T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=13287"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:54:06","slug":"camera-shy-bald-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/camera-shy-bald-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera shy bald eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13288\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/148_2766-RAW-beatty-rooney-ranch-bald-eagle.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13288\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/148_2766-RAW-beatty-rooney-ranch-bald-eagle-800x397.jpg\" alt=\"beatty rooney ranch bald eagle flying male\" width=\"800\" height=\"397\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/148_2766-RAW-beatty-rooney-ranch-bald-eagle-800x397.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/148_2766-RAW-beatty-rooney-ranch-bald-eagle-250x124.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bald eagle in flight<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year a friend tipped me off to a bald eagle nest on their property an hour east of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t have a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2014\/06\/beatty-bald-eagle\/>long lens with me to shoot it properly<\/a>. So when we went for a visit this past weekend I brought my 300mm lens and a 1.7X teleconverter to extend my reach to about 500mm.<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived at the nest the eagle was sitting in the tree. However, by the time I got my equipment together the eagle was in flight and heading quickly away from me. I revisited the nest a couple more times on the trip and the results were similar on each visit. This eagle wanted nothing to do with me. I saw it on each occasion, but it split when it saw me coming and didn&#8217;t return while I waited.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is the best I could do, and this is a 100% crop. The eagle was really nowhere near me when I took this. Maybe next time he&#8217;ll have offspring in the nest and be more willing to stick around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year a friend tipped me off to a bald eagle nest on their property an hour east of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t have a long lens with me to shoot it properly. So when we went for a visit this past weekend I brought my 300mm lens and a 1.7X teleconverter to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[535,429,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13291,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions\/13291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}