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Eagles of Conowingo | 2016 - 39

            American Bald Eagles of Conowingo

The Bald Eagles at Conowingo Dam are world famous. The Eagle population remains year round, and the location is shared with Great Blue Herons, Double-Crested Cormorants, and many other birds and Wildlife.

Conowingo Dam

The Conowingo Dam (also Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant, Conowingo Hydroelectric Station) is a large hydroelectric dam in the lower Susquehanna River near the town of Conowingo, Maryland. The medium-height, masonry gravity dam is one of the largest non-federal hydroelectric dams in the U.S.

The dam sits about 9.9 miles from the river mouth at the Chesapeake Bay, 5 miles south of the Pennsylvania border and 45 miles northeast of Baltimore, on the border between Cecil and Harford counties.

The dam supports a 9,000-acre reservoir, which today covers the original town of Conowingo. During dam construction, the town was moved to its present location about 1-mile northeast of the dam's eastern end. The rising water also would have covered Conowingo Bridge, the original U.S. Route 1 crossing, so it was demolished in 1928.

The Conowingo Reservoir, and the nearby Susquehanna State Park, provide many recreational opportunities.

Taken in: United States / Maryland / Cecil (show map)

Taken on: December 19, 2016

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Camera: Nikon D500, f/4.0, 1/3200 sec, 600mm (=900mm), ISO 125 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D500
Lens:	600.0 mm f/4.0
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	1/3200 sec
Focal Length:	600mm (35mm equivalent: 900mm)
ISO:	125
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.8 (Macintosh)
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