Hey Adam!
Yes, it's been a while, so it's great to see you sharing some photos. What a fun experience for the students to see and photograph Bald Eagles.
Here are a few thoughts on each one.
#1 - It's a great pose, just a hair to bright, so I would use the Highlight Recovery maybe 10 to 20 % to knock that brightness down. It could use a bit of contrast as well.
#2 - Love it's mouth open, so great timing, and all around it looks very nicely exposed.
#3 - Shows just how difficult the lighting conditions were there. I would suggest for the image to have taken 1 step to the right before taking the photo so that green branch was spaced away just a little bit more. There is that totally blown out stripe of light where the feet are. In these conditions, the best way to photograph these is probably about 2 stops underexposed so that the highlights don't blow out. The issue is that it will be harder to the see the images in the viewfinder or back display on the camera, so it makes it harder to immediately see your/students work. Just remember that you can Recover 1 stop of blown Highlights while processing, but you can Recover 5 stops of Shadows. So in mixed lighting like this it's best to always underexpose. Use the Exposure Compensation on the camera for those images like this.
#4 - Love the stoic look of this one, the way the head is turned to the side like that. This image is completely in Shadow so it would be much easier to process, and the camera will expose for it better.
#5 - Very nicely done. Again a small step to right would have put just a little more space between the branches and the Eagle. You can see there Highlights are not blown out in this one, it's because there is a lot more of the lit up area in the image, so the camera would meter to underexpose more.
#6 - This is really nice! Another case of just stepping to the right to avoid that thick branch in the scene. I would say this one is pretty perfect if it wasn't for that branch. It's easy to get excited about taking photos of birds, and I know they can move around pretty fast, but always have 1 eye towards your composition so as to move to the right or left to eliminate distracting elements in the scene.
#7 - Love that stern look this guy is giving! It reminds me of the Bald Eagle in the Muppet Show.
The highlights are just on the edge of blowing out, so that's great that they didn't blow out. This one is very nice too.
There is something to like in each of the photos. They all give unique looks at these Bald Eagles.
My Top 3 will be #2, 4 and 7.
