Sunday, December 31, 2006




Michael took the top picture yesterday at sunset. I pulled the bottom two from tiny sections. If you look closely in the second one (click the picture to magnify), you can see dark specks. If you can look very closely, you can identify them as bald eagles. On my first cursory count, there were forty-seven of them. I am still speechless.

Of course, it could be a refractory effect on some other type of bird, too. But hey, go with me on this! Whatever they are, they are very large birds very far away...

The bottom picture is a magnification of a fleck of green just off the right rim of the bright spot of the sun. If you look at it just right, you can see a spiral like a yellow-brick-road, with the green on the walkway. Isn't that crazy? Like a golden circle...

If you look just above the spiral there is a smudge that resembles a bald eagle flying. I swear, I am not making it up! Just off of its "beak" there are two small flecks. You guessed it, real bald eagles! (if only in my kingdom...)

Then, if you look up in the right corner, you see another small spiral and at about nine-o'clock to that is another, even more vague, smudge that might resemble the head of a bald eagle, if you are really trying.

Be a sport and try! Just click on the picture and see if it doesn't magnify enough to pick up the effects.

If this isn't the most amazing photograph you have ever seen, I will refund your money! And give you a good whack to knock some sense in you!

2 comments:

mvn said...

sorry mom, to me, they look more like a fleet of ufo's that have come to enjoy all the probing that so il has to offer. i'd go check for crop circles if i were you. but...

if those are eagles, that is amazing, but why would they be out there all together? air currents? was it windy that day? beautiful picture. was the green atmospheric or camerapheric? i'm guessing atmo.

mary said...

atmo

I don't even know if they are eagles, but in the high res photo on my computer they all have white heads and tails.

I found a site about eagles that describes eagle migrations, twice per year, but it still seems unlikely, doesn't it.

sorry the res makes it look weird. or maybe that's a good thing?