Eagles at the Chehalis Flats in Harrison Mills, BC (2012)

How many eagles can you find? The Chehalis Flats (Lhá:lt) attracts large numbers of Bald and Golden Eagles from December to February, which feed on spawning Coho and Chum Salmon. On December 18, 2010, a total count of 7,362 eagles in a 2 sq km section of the flats set a world record high! Some 3,500 eagles were in the area when this image was taken on December 17, 2011. About 400 to 500 are regularly seen from the Harrison Mills bridge on Highway 7. This eagle concentration is perhaps the 3rd largest in the world after the Chilkat River, Alaska, and Squamish River, BC. Vancouver is the urban bald eagle capital of the world with 380 documented eagle nests. The image is made up of 468 individual photos stitched together and captured using a Canon EOS 5D MKII, Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM lens and GigaPan EPIC Pro. Photo by Ashley Drody.

Panorama Size: 5.04 gigapixels (5,045 megapixels)
Dimensions: 215,297 x 23,431 pixels
FOV: fov icon 258.9° x fov icon 28.2°
Date: 2012 December 01