Juvenile eagle? Watching corn grow.

[elleng]

BALD eagle! Thanks to friends for info!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10221948015115920&set=p.10221948015115920&type=3

[Tree-Hugger]

1. Juvie Bald Eagle

What a cutie!

[3Hotdogs]

2. Sure its not a Golden?

[elleng]

3. Thanks for the discerning thought.

Other experts have the same question.

[pazzyanne]

4. Depends what state this eagle was photographed in.

Golden eagles live mainly in the western half of the USA.

https://avianreport.com/where-do-golden-eagles-live/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20golden%20eagle%20range%3F%20Golden%20eagles,while%20a%20small%20number%20live%20in%20the%20East.

Bald eagles are found living in the entire USA.

https://sites.google.com/a/owu.edu/endangerment-of-bald-eagles/home/habitat

[3Hotdogs]

5. I saw one in N.J. and another almost ran into my windshield on the N.Y.S. Thruway.

[pazzyanne]

8. Bald or golden? nt

[3Hotdogs]

16. Golden. "Balds" are al over N.J. and N.Y.

I believe that N.J. has 400 or more nesting pair. More in winter as they come south for streams that are not frozen over.

Not quite related, but it was about 20 years ago, summer, at an environmental center in eastern Pa. Staff member was telling us about one of their juvie Balds. It was in their area the prior morning. Around 2 P.M., same day, they got a call from Cape Cod Audubon. The tag had been spotted in Wellfleet, Mass. It was. back "home," by the next morning.

Juvie will go on tours to find new nesting areas and maybe, a hot babe.

[elleng]

7. Southern MD, near Patuxent River, not far from Chesapeake Bay

[pazzyanne]

9. My brother who lives in Maryland, saw a bald eagle near there.

He was pretty excited and called me right away.

I live in western Minnesota, and watch three active nests within 10 miles of my house. Watched a Bald fledgling wading in huge puddle at the end of my driveway one morning. I love watching eagles, as I was 28 years old before I saw my first eagle in the wild. Thank you, Rachel Carlson!

[elleng]

10. I've seen them around here fairly often; lived @ river about 8 years.

Haven't seen eagle nest(s,) tho neighbors have. Do have an osprey nest adjacent to my house, but geese took it over early spring, and the osprey pair didn't make eggs this year.

[pazzyanne]

12. I've seen osprey while visiting in NE Minnesota.

We don't have any osprey in western Minnesota.

I hate it when nests go dormant.

[elleng]

13. This big old nest had better not be dormant; geese used it well, had 5 goslings.

The osprey pair did return to it, and still visit it regularly, but no kids. Waiting for St. Pat's day next year, when they usually return from their southern 'vacation.'

[pazzyanne]

14. Glad to hear that it is still active!

When the nest is no longer used, it means a not so happy event has happened, such as the death of one of the pair.

[2naSalit]

6. I'm gonna say it's...

A juvenile, female, bald eagle.

[elleng]

11. Thanks. How can you tell it's female?

[2naSalit]

15. Two things to look at...

Sometimes three.

1 & 2 - size, especially if two are present, the female is larger by up to 30%.

3 look at the beak, the back part will extend behind the center of the eye. So the pupil of the eye, imagine a line straight down from there, if the corner of the beak (where upper and lower meet) is further back than that, it's probably female, along with size if that can be determined.

The more of them that you see, the easier it becomes to tell or make a reasonable guess.
Rule of thumb, if you see a pair, the larger is the female, usually.

[elleng]

17. Thanks

[2naSalit]

18. And sans...

Closer examination, that's about as good as it gets, as far as I know.