Last Monday was a holiday, so naturally I went down to Conowingo Dam to take pictures of bald eagles. It was my first day out with a new camera, so I was pretty excited to go.

It was a fairly quiet day, with only about a dozen eagles around, but there were some bursts of activity. Right when I was driving into the parking lot, I saw two eagles fighting over a fish in mid-air directly over the driveway. I knew it would all be over by the time I got the camera out, so I just sat there and enjoyed it while it was happening.

Later in the day, the main focus of attention was a nearby tree where two adult eagles were just standing around on adjacent branches. All of a sudden, one of them hopped over to where the other one was, and there was some squawking. Looks like another fight, but then, oh, no, that's not a fight. That's something else.

So there it is, my first ever photo of bald eagles mating in the wild.

I got some other pictures too, but that one was definitely the highlight of the day.