Greetings Chris: This is a juvenile, or first-year bald eagle. Dark head without golden hackles, large beak and the fact that it was hanging around near an adult bald eagle, likely hoping to scavenge on a kill from the adult.
Best, Anne Price On Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 6:31:58 PM UTC-6, Egret wrote: > > [image: IMG_2677.JPG] > Is this a Golden Eagle? I saw it in the same tree as a Bald Eagle. It was > clearly larger. Also the hooked bill. I also thought it could be a > Dark-morph Swainson's Hawk (I saw several today). > > Chris Brobin > Manitou Springs > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/a6414eea-cc54-470d-81bd-109a9b9aa587%40googlegroups.com.
