Today I will share with you, the Bald Eagle. Immature and fully mature.

Historically, I have always been a fan of one of this country’s founders, Benjamin Franklyn. With that said, I am glad Ben did not get his way and make the symbol of America, the wild Turkey.

I have seen, photographed and enjoyed wild Turkeys, but come on the now, the Bald Eagle has an air of majesty about it.

We start with a fully grown but still immature bird.

Feeding one’s self in the winter, can be a chore for an eagle. Searching the river ice (and snow) of winter is one place that an eagle can get lucky if you will.

Below we have a lucky Eagle. Luck that is, with a little work to go with it.

The mature Eagle below searches from the air. He spots what must be a fish and dives to open water for breakfast.

Moving away from eagles let us examine this early morning shot of q perched Black-crowned Night Heron. The downward stare is I am sure the bird scanning the waterway for fish.

Memory does not serve me if it was successful, but if it was, I would at least like to think I would have an image of it catching and/or eating said fish.

Mixed subjects. Below we have first a Pelican in the company of some Great Egrets., then a Pelican and a Great-blue Heron, and then some Pelicans and only Pelicans. All of the images were created at Horicon Marsh NWR in Wisconsin.

Finally, let us finish away from the water with a delicate little Cassin’s Finch.

Some days, photography is just for the birds.

I am no different than anyone, I “like being liked. However, in today’s world in particular, if we are liked by everyone, or by an enormous majority, we are doing something wrong. We are capitulating to others, or are ignoring what we believe in, just to be popular.

Anybody who stands for anything, will be disliked or hated by some or by many. That is today’s world.

Be true and honest to what you believe. Don’t set out to make enemies but realize if we have made some, we might actually be putting truth and righteousness above ourselves, which is commendable.

Back in the days of the Viet Nam War, we tried to fight withiout angering anyone. Hit where we had to, to prove we were fighting, but often do as little harm as we could so our enemies would like us.

We didn’t want to lose, but equally, we did not want to win.

Everybody hated us. We should have either stayed out of that war, or fought it to win it.

“All sin is against God!” We have all sinned and while at times, we might hurt others with that sin, it is always an offense to God. He is the only perfection in the universe. He imparted that perfection to us, when He walked this earth as the “man:” Jesus. We of course, need to accept that, and have faith and knowledge in what it means to be in the presence of God, once our bodies die and our souls become everything we are.

We can never be perfect, but God can cast perfection upon us.

The poster above does not mean your life will be perfect. Nothing is learned and nothing is improved from a perfect life. After all, every one of our bodies will in fact, eventually die. As did the human body of our Savior.

The point is, God will help you, and that means via good things, and also what seems at the time to be bad things.

It is natural for us to become frightened and to be skeptical. I believe God gave us those traights to help us survive better, and to lean on Him whenever neccessary.

He will in the end, with compasion, give you what you need, but not what our sinful souls want.

Below is a link to a hard working group which fights for the Biblical truth on a variety of subjects we face in today’s world.

God Bless,
Wayne