Both Golden Eagle and Sea Eagles were high on our hit list for this short visit to Skye and we were delighted to see an aerial territorial dispute between these two birds while working with Stewart Dawber on our first afternoon on Skye
We were hunkered down on a mountain slope that was the known territory of a pair of Golden Eagles but none had been sighted when a juvenile Sea Eagle glided into the territory quite low over some near tree tops and then it treated us to some fine aerial loops around the surrounding glen as it moved in our direction.
As I snapped away taking perhaps a hundred or more rapid fire exposures thinking that things could not get much better than this, They Did !! As out from its hiding place in a group of trees on the opposite side of the glen appeared a fine female Golden Eagle.
She immediately headed in the direction of the Sea Eagle and was intent on expelling it from her territory while creating for me the opportunity of framing both birds as they passed close together several times to create this blogs header image.
Unfortunately both birds moved away from us as the Golden Eagle chased the Sea Eagle from its patch but by then I was already reviewing the results in my camera monitor and I was:
A Happy Chappy !!
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