thehotel wrote:
Hi Ted, all you have to do to be a member is join us for one of our outings. The next one as far as I know is going to be in the spring down at Portal, Arizona.
Looks like a juvenile BE to me. But what do I know - - I've only seen one so that's all I can base it on that & it looks like the top predator of El Dorado park to me. And she's been see by a lot of birders who should know.....
Lil - - going back to cleaning up after the Sylmar Wildfire storms, so I don't do picks at this time.... Sorry....
Size is an unreliable field mark for birds because without a close-by reference it is easy to be misjudge. In the case of the two eagle species in question, their size ranges overlap completely.
If I saw the pictured bird (nice shots) in the field, the relatively small bill and the gold on the head and neck would lead me to record a Golden Eagle.
Lil Judd wrote:
Looks like a juvenile BE to me. But what do I know - - I've only seen one so that's all I can base it on that & it looks like the top predator of El Dorado park to me. And she's been see by a lot of birders who should know.....
Lil - - going back to cleaning up after the Sylmar Wildfire storms, so I don't do picks at this time.... Sorry....
Gooood luck with the cleaning. Thanks for the look.