Today, I looked out my window to see a big bird soaring over our New Hampshire farm in the warm breeze.   Unlike anything I'd ever seen before, it had a bright white head and a matching white tail.   The body was dark against the sky.

I watched it circle a few times, just soaring, before it headed towards the valley west of our farm.   That was the last I saw of it.   By the time I got the camera, it was gone.

We have a lot of big birds in this area.   We've heard that there are Turkey Vultures here.   And yesterday, we watched a big Red-tailed Hawk fly around and then later land on something in one of the pastures, stand there for a short time, then take flight again.   But aside from a very impressive looking Pileated Woodpecker which I had the pleasure of seeing last month, I had not yet seen a bird with such strong contrasts in coloring.

The Bald Eagle is recognised world wide as one of the great symbols of America.   Until today, I always thought of it as a bird that only lived in the Rocky Mountains and along the western part of America.   Looking up the Bald Eagle in a National Audubon Society bird book, The Sibley Guide to Birds, my Mom gave us, I now know that the Bald Eagle inhabits nearly all of America.

My first Bald Eagle sighting!   How very cool!