An eagle caught my attention as it flew over the pond behind our house. Soon it dove and disappeared behind the ridge and appeared to be checking for interlopers.
As I moved closer the eagle took off with her half-eaten dinner still in her claws.
A bird eats sugar from my hands
In spring 2009, while we were sailing in the Exuma chain of the Bahamas, we anchored at Wardrick Wells at the Land and Sea Park. Wild birds flew onto our sail boat and perched on the life lines. After a little while they hopped into the cockpit. Then one explored the cabin. We shooed her back to the cockpit. We had seen birds resembling these in the British Virgin Islands feeding at an open bowl of sugar. We brought out some sugar to the cockpit and she immediately started nibbling. I then handed the camera over to Randy, put the sugar in my hands, and Randy took a few photos. He was concentrating so much on the bird in my hands that he ignored the background: the inside of the cockpit. Wanting to learn Photoshop in 2009, I decided to merge the bird in hands with our view of the colorful water and sky. Somehow the picture was lost. I stumbled upon it this week while rationalizing my photo libraries. I wasn’t happy with the masking, so I started over, re-masked the foreground and finally found the directions on how to re-merge them. Now I just have to keep using/learning Photoshop so I don’t have to start over!