What an awesome bird!
In 1967 the Bald Eagle was placed on the endangered species list...Honestly, I think I might have seen one of these beautiful birds in the wild before this week...
As you can see from these pictures, they're far from endangered up here in Alaska...
...actually, they were removed from the endangered species list just last year!
After work this afternoon I decided to go back to one of the spots where these birds seem to congregate and see if I couldn't get a few really special pictures of this magnificent animal...
...How'd I do?
I'm not sure I want to tell you where I found them...it might taint your opinion of them...

...alright...I'll tell you. They like to hang out in two places around here on Kodiak Island. One of the places is around the local cannery...but that's not where I got these pictures...These birds were on the other end of town, hanging out in the trees around the local land fill!!!

But you know what? I don't care! They're still awesome to watch. If it wasn't so freaking cold, I'd probably have stayed out there watching them even longer! But even in the beautiful sunny day that I experienced here today, it was still only in the 20's! Yeah, I'm a sissy! So what! Wanna fight?

Hey...guess what...the Giants won the Superbowl!!! But I guess Eagles are still cool!  ¶ 10:54 PM