Watching

A bald eagle watches the muskrats on the ice and the remaining mallards on the unfrozen channel in the Sturgeon River below before losing interest (probably due to my presence) and flying off down river.

MId-air tussle

An adult Bald Eagle tussles with a juvenile and they fall out of the sky over Murray Marsh. St Albert.

Eagle on the marsh

A juvenile Bald Eagle surveys Murray Marsh. Sturgeon County.

Take-off for a look

A Northern Harrier flys towards me for a closer look before heading out over the surrounding fields for a hunt. Murray Marsh, Sturgeon County.

Nonchalance

A coot and a wigeon nonchalantly swim past a Northern Harrier. Murray Marsh, Sturgeon County.

Launch

A Juvenile Bald Eagle launches from its perch overlooking Big Lake.

Enough already!

This Sharp-shinned (or juvenile Cooper's ?) Hawk sat in a tree for a few moments before deciding that it had had enough of my presence. Sturgeon County.

Surprise

After a couple of hours of wandering the bush, and not seeing much of anything, I decided to retrace a side path I had taken earlier, and up popped this guy, I think a juvenile Coopers Hawk. Persistence pays off! Sturgeon County. (The colouration of the wings is strange, I think it is glare off the harsh sunlight caused by moisture from the bush it flew out of)