Guess what species of bird this is? If you said, "an adolescent bald eagle," you'd be right! Like human teens, eagles go through that "awkward" time when their elders may wonder what gene pool they came from. The bald eagle is born with a fluff of grey brown feathers on its body and wings and a snowy cap of white. In northeast Florida the births happen in winter. It is a voracious eater, and by early spring it is as big as its parent and has exchanged its adorable plumage for a coat of scruffy dark feathers with white mottling. A face only a mother (and a father) could love. Both parents care for their chicks. This photo probably doesn't endear us to it - sopping wet and gripping a bone from its latest meal in its beak. The Switzerland-Fruit Cove Flordia area hosts at least seven bald eagle nests, and if this year's eaglets are lucky they'll have nests of their own in the future. Learn more about our local national birds at our
Resources post on Bald Eagle Nests.
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