In December, 2007, my brother and SIL took me to see the Bald Eagles along a river in Wash. State and I saw an adult eating a freshly caught salmon. A few minutes later, a juvenile came along and landed right where the salmon and the adult eagle were and started to eat some, too. Then the adult flew off and I wondered if that the juvenile might have been the adult's child or it wouldn't have been so generous? Hard to say, but it could be...


If you look carefully, you can see the adult's white head and the wings that actually are those of both the adult and the juvenile, as the older one prepared to fly off and the younger one was landing next to the adult's right side and behind it. My brother said the juvenile was about 3-4 years old. Sort of challenges the idea that the adults don't share food with eagles other than their chicks in the nest.
