Racetrack Eagle

~This most beautiful photo is also by my good friend Dave__ who I exercise with regularly. This most beautiful bird lives just a little South of the Datona Florida Racetrack. Dave had his camera with him while playing a vacation round of golf recently... so this is a free-standing telephoto & quick shot, which I really like!
~Those wide spaced Florida pine trees that give off such a delightful aroma also nest well for our national treasure of a bald eagle. These birds stack their new nests on top of last years old nest. These big preditors like to eat fish so this home must have the right sea-side combinations by the size of that nest! I can feel the coastal waters in that azere blue, cloudless of a back drop sky... just minuets as a bird flys South of old St. Augustine.
~I like to think that my Dad let me drive his new 1953 Ford on the beach right near this much younger tree. Back in the early days of Datona Beach auto racing, they raced on the hard sandy beach. I drove on that same beach for miles, sitting almost on top of my father... many times! We vacationed in St. Petersburg every Christmas back then and I don't think Dave knows about my little connection to his superb photo yet?
~This is one of those coinsidental things that makes me smile. Thanks Dave! It's another great photo, of your many. Oh, I forgot a another good part, Dave could hear the practice racecars roaring from where he stood to take this most memorable of digital photographs!