Chris B.
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Duane -
I guess I can qualify as a "regular". I drive down from PA about 4 or 5 times a month October through January. I'll try and answer your questions:
The area where most photographers and fisherman go is a narrow park-like setting on the southern side of the Susquehanna below the dam. Although there's a lot of parking, get there early at this time of year because it fills up fast. Also there are a lot of trees, mostly in the middle, with some gaps, so when you're tracking EIF (Eagles In Flight), flying over you, you'll usually track them into the trees. They do tend to roost in the trees above and behind in the parking lot.
Assuming you're facing the river, the sun is to your right until about 10-11 am.
There's a large island in the river with transmission towers which I'm guessing is about 100 yds away. Unfortunately, a lot of the eagles do their fishing on the other, inaccessible side of the island but there are still a lot of opportunities.
A 500mm lens is excellent and common down there as are 400's, 100-400's, 200-400's. I've seen quite a few 600's and the new Canon 800's down there as well as a few Sigma 300-800mm zooms. Bring a 1.4 if you've got one...
A valuable piece of info I learned on Bird Photographers.net is this:
Each day around 5 p.m. Eastern time, the power utility records a telephone message with the schedule of the next day's generation cycles. While the information is somewhat general, and subject to change, it at least lends a broad picture of what the power releases may be. The number to call is: 1-888-457-4076.
Lastly, weekends are VERY BUSY! If you can schedule a weekday trip, there's likely to be less human activity.
Hope this helps...
Chris
Attached is a shot from last weekend
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