Seeing a bald eagle isn’t an every-day experience for me so I was pretty impressed when I would see one on our cruise of the inside passage of Alaska. Then we passed this rock outcrop and behold there were 6 bald eagles and 4 other birds of prey that I don’t recognize.
Here is a blow-up of the other birds. I am wondering if they are golden eagles. If you know what they are, please comment below.
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Wow! That’s fantastic 🙂
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Hope to visit Alaska some day.
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I hope you can too. It is truly a wilderness.
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I’m no expert but my guess would be they are “teenage” eagles…but wow, you really hit the jackpot here, Pat!! What an amazing sight and capture!
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Can I just say WOW. WOW! WOW! WOW! I have yet to get a good view of one. My daughter sees them all the time. Now about the brown ones, bald eagles tend to stick to them selves so I would say they are their young, teenagers if you will. Bald eagles are all brown when they are young but I don’t know at what age it turns white. So that’s just my 2 cents for what its worth LOL
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I didn’t think bald eagles were really social so it seemed strange that another predatory type bird would be with them – so I think they are teenagers. And if we say that is what they are, Ana, it must be right. 🙂
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You are so right 🙂
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Sorry realized mistake.
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Could it not be fish-eagles?
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I will look them up. Thanks. Charles Martin suggested that they are juvenile bald eagles.
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F A B U L O US ! I have wanted to see this bird up close in the wild my whole life!
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I have never been fortunate enough to photograph one of these beautiful creatures. 😦
These are wonderful photographs, Pat.
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Thanks, I was on a moving ship so they aren’t really sharp but wonderful to bring home with me.
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I suspect they other four are newly fledged juvenile (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle).
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Oh, could be as it was late spring. Thanks.
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Those four look like golden eagles, but I am no expert.
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Thanks, that’s two to zip for golden eagles – me and you.
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