Wildlife photography is challenging: capture the subject, focus, pull along, pull the trigger. And it doesn't work the first time!
What I didn't succeed in Canada, I was able to make up for at Lake Feldberg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Early at 7 o'clock I went to the lake. Majestically the white-tailed eagle made its round, went into the attack flight to snap shortly over the water surface, grabbed and took off again.
Awe-inspiring are its talons holding the prey. The slight cropping of the eagle highlights it just at the moment of the grab thanks to the large aperture.
Majestic is this animal all the way to the wingtips. The huge yellow beak is distinctive for the white-tailed eagle. Unlike its American counterpart, the Bold Eagle (bald eagle), it has a light brown head.
His reward was an eel, which he knew how to defend well against gulls and kites. And yes, even a great kite looks very small against this sea eagle.
A kite had snatched an eel. The sea eagle chased him until he dropped his prey. The eagle decides who is allowed to help himself from his lake ...