Hawk PA USA (1 Viewer)

[JamesPS]

Anyone have an idea about this hawk?

 

[fugl]

Anyone have an idea about this hawk?

Bald Eagle

 

[Larry Lade]

Bald Eagle to me too!

 

[RJP]

Dark body, broken white in the wing linings - probably a first year.

 

[tril42]

Agree with young Bald Eagle.

 

[Microtus]

It's a young Bald Eagle.

 

[JamesPS]

Thank you all for the feedback! This one is the first one I have ever seen! so exciting!

 

[KC Foggin]

Then congrats on your new lifer :t:

And a warm welcome to you form the entire staff here at BF

 

[Microtus]

Congratulations on your lifer, and welcome to the Forum!

 

[TLeukering]

Dark body, broken white in the wing linings - probably a first year.

Not probably, definitely a one-year-old -- note that all secondaries are the same length and all exhibit a somewhat pointed-tip shape. The shape is a feature of juvenal secondaries (adult secondaries are rounder, broader), while there is only one age of eagles in which all the secondaries are of the same generation of feathers -- juvenile.