Tag: alaska

Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle, Homer, Alaska

This is a photo of a bald eagle on a branch at Homer, Alaska.

Bald eagle on a driftwood tree limb.  I don’t recall if it was landing or taking off – or lifting its rear to relieve itself.  It was 2009 and I was at the famous Jean Keene’s (“The Eagle Lady”) place on the Homer Spit.

Brown Bear

Brown Bear, Alaska

This is a photo of a brown bear with long stems of sedge grass in its mouth.

A brown bear munches on sedge grass in Lake Clark National Park.   I’m not sure why it is that brown bears, at least where they are routinely photographed, pretty much ignore humans.  I don’t know of any distance rules regarding the bears in Lake Clark.  Of course, there was the famous case of Timothy Treadwell, a brown bear activist who, along with his girlfriend, was killed by a male brown bear in 2003.

Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle, Homer, Alaska

Photo of a bald eagle perched on driftwood on a beach at Homer, Alaska.

A bald eagle perches on a driftwood limb in Homer, Alaska.

A trip down memory lane.  I took this photo in 2009 behind the house of “The Eagle Lady,” Jean Keene.   Jean moved to Homer in 1977.  She lived out at the end of Homer Spit which extends a long way into Kachemak Bay.  It didn’t take long before she noticed a couple of bald eagles on the beach behind her house.  She worked at a nearby fish processing plant and brought some fish home and threw the fish to the eagles.  By the time of her death in 2009 the number of eagles at Jean’s house grew from two to 200.   Feeding was done just in the winter when times were more difficult for the birds.  Hundreds of bird photographers would come to Homer each winter to photograph those bald eagles.