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Index of Subjects --001a1140f3f8c68838052d41778f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 It takes 4 years for Bald eagles to attain full adult plumage, and they can form pair-bonds and exhibit courting behaviour before that. So they can do that - however, nearly all young Bald eagles have at least some white on them, except when just fledged (generally late May- June), so it's possible your birds could have been e.g. ad. Golden. However, if they were back-lit, all you might see would be silhouettes without any obvious color. Golden have smaller heads and proportionally longer tails than Bald, an their bulging secondaries give a more rounded wing shape. Keep looking! On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:10 PM, John and Nhung <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> wrote: > About 2 P.M. this afternoon, a couple of large buteo-shaped soarers did a > series of slow, looping circles on high, moving across the Wyman Road from > the west and looping northwards towards the town of Yarmouth. > > > > No distinctive markings, pretty uniformly dark underneath. > > > > Would young bald eagles circle together in pairs, or is that behaviour > restricted to adult birds? If the latter, we may have seen a pair of > something more exciting. > > This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > -- ################# Richard Stern, Port Williams, NS, Canada sternrichard@gmail.com ################### --001a1140f3f8c68838052d41778f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">It takes 4 years for Bald eagles to attain full adult plum= age, and they can form pair-bonds and exhibit courting behaviour before tha= t. So they can do that - however, nearly all young Bald eagles have at leas= t some white on them, except when just fledged (generally late May- June), = so it's possible your birds could have been e.g. ad. Golden. However, i= f they were back-lit, all you might see would be silhouettes without any ob= vious color. Golden have smaller heads and proportionally longer tails than= Bald, an their bulging secondaries give a more rounded wing shape. Keep lo= oking!<div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar= 4, 2016 at 7:10 PM, John and Nhung <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto= :nhungjohn@eastlink.ca" target=3D"_blank">nhungjohn@eastlink.ca</a>></sp= an> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;= border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang=3D"EN-CA" link=3D"bl= ue" vlink=3D"purple"><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal">About 2 P.M. this afternoo= n, a couple of large buteo-shaped soarers did a series of slow, looping cir= cles on high, moving across the Wyman Road from the west and looping northw= ards towards the town of Yarmouth.<u></u><u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal">= <u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal">No distinctive markings, pre= tty uniformly dark underneath.<u></u><u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><u><= /u>=C2=A0<u></u></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal">Would young bald eagles circle t= ogether in pairs, or is that behaviour restricted to adult birds?=C2=A0 If = the latter, we may have seen a pair of something more exciting.<u></u><u></= u></p></div> <br> <table style=3D"border-top:1px solid #aaabb6"> <tbody><tr> <td style=3D"width:470px;padding-top:20px;color:#41424e;font-size:13px;fo= nt-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">This email has been = sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. <br><a href=3D"https://= www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=3Demail&utm_source=3Dlink&utm_ca= mpaign=3Dsig-email&utm_content=3Demailclient" style=3D"color:#4453ea" t= arget=3D"_blank">www.avast.com</a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div c= lass=3D"gmail_signature">#################<br>Richard Stern, <br>Port Willi= ams, NS, Canada<br><a href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com" target=3D"_bla= nk">sternrichard@gmail.com</a><br>###################</div> </div></div> --001a1140f3f8c68838052d41778f--
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