Last Friday a group of friends and I went to Squaw Creek in Missouri to take some pictures of eagles. Every year during the first two weeks of December bald eagles come to this location to fatten up on fish and geese before they finish their migration to Alaska. I have been coming here for the last three years, braving the frigid cold, trying to get a solid picture of an eagle in flight. Thus far I have been unsuccessful. I have many images of the birds in flight but there has always been something wrong with the shot. Usually the shots have been slightly out of focus or soft because of movement. It is rather difficult to get a tact on image of something moving when you are using a zoom lens. To add to the difficulty your lens sometimes focuses on other objects in the image such as branches. This year was different. This year I scored numerous choice shots. Here are a few.