So close, yet so far away -- Bald eagle against the ever-changing pre-dusk sky

Bald eagle with its entourage

 

 

Sunlight washing over its downward wing

 

 

so far away across the lake

 

Before sunset, I was gazing/scanning the far shoreline thru the spotting scope; lo and behold, there it was perched in a tree big as life, but oh-so-small by camera

 

Mergansers in a bit closer than the soaring eagle