Bald Eagle

As you see this majestuous bird fly over the land you understand why it is the USA's national emblem. Proud, beautiful, soaring high in the sky over its kingdom, the Bald Eagle is quite a feast for the eye.

This bird attracts attention. You just have to look online(http://www.myfwc.com/eagle/eaglenests/nestlocator.aspx) and see how people are tracking their nest location. They do build the largest nest of any north american birds.

The Bald Eagles live mostly is Usa and Canada, their largest population is in Alaska. It is a protected and revered specie which has been the victim of the DDT pesticide(a substance now banned).

I had the privilege of taking a few pictures of this magnificient creature at the Gemini Springs park in debary,fl

Red Shouldered Hawk

The Red Shouldered Hawk is a beautiful bird of prey that you can see just about everywhere in the USA. This bird's diet consists of turtles,snakes,large insects,mice and other small mammals.They build their nests at a major fork of a tree and they have hatch 3 to 4 eggs which have an incubation period of about a month. The new borns are usually out of the nest within 6 weeks.

On a personal note this is a great bird to take in picture, you can sense a bit of a majesty in them. These photos above are all of young red shouldered hawks. I used a Nikon Coolpix p80 to capture them at the Gemini Springs Park, Debary, Florida