{"id":1624,"date":"2009-04-05T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:15:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:15:57","slug":"bald-eagle-landing-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/bald-eagle-landing-alaska.html","title":{"rendered":"Bald Eagle Landing, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bald_eagle_photo.html\">bald eagle photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A large group of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bald_eagle_photo.html\">bald eagles<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Haliaeetus_leucocephalus\">Haliaeetus leucocephalus<\/a><\/em>) was gathered on the snow-covered ground when periodically another eagle would arrive, in flight, and join the group by skimming just over their heads, slowing with wings outstretched, finding a suitable spot amid the crush, and landing with talons scratching across the ice and a clash of raised wings.  I got this shot by laying down on the snow directly upwind and waiting for one eagle to land into the wind right at me.  I crossed my fingers that the focus on the camera would work.  It did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=22588\" title=\"Bald eagle spreads its wings to land amid a large group of b...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/bald-eagle-alaska-photo-22588-276544.jpg\" alt=\"Bald eagle spreads its wings to land amid a large group of bald eagles, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis, Kachemak Bay, Homer, Alaska\" title=\"Bald eagle spreads its wings to land amid a large group of bald eagles, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis, Kachemak Bay, Homer, Alaska\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bald eagle spreads its wings to land amid a large group of bald eagles.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=22588\">22588<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bald_eagle_photo.html\" title=\"Bald eagle photos\">Bald eagle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Haliaeetus_leucocephalus\" title=\"Haliaeetus leucocephalus photos\"><i>Haliaeetus leucocephalus<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Haliaeetus_leucocephalus_washingtoniensis\" title=\"Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis photos\"><i>Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis<\/i><\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=kachemak_bay&amp;city=homer&amp;state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Kachemak Bay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=homer&amp;state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Homer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Alaska<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bald_eagle_photo.html\">bald eagle photos<\/a> from my recent trip to Homer will be posted in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the new bald eagle photos. A large group of bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) was gathered on the snow-covered ground when periodically another eagle would arrive, in flight, and join the group by skimming just over their heads, slowing with wings outstretched, finding a suitable spot amid the crush, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,146,83],"tags":[255],"class_list":{"0":"post-1624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alaska","7":"category-bald-eagle","8":"category-icons","9":"tag-icons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}