Because I'm not great with a pen (understatement of the century), I made this dude's body too short... so he's going to be a portrait... doodled from Birds of North America.
Bald eagles are no strangers to the Inland Northwest. Apparently they like to hang out not far from here in the winter, and sometimes we see them soaring over the Palouse.
When we went rafting in Nova Scotia last summer, the river was lousy with them, at all stages of life. Several darker juveniles mixed in with their parents. We got the sense that all of them were waiting to see if one (or more) of us were going to fall out of the rafts...
