Chris,
    The juvenile golden eagle has very pronounced black and  white tail
feathers with the black toward the tip and the white toward the  rump. The
under wing coloration has a triangle shape in the middle of each  wing with
other white splotches. The top of the wings are brown.Your  description
defiantly sounds like a juvenile golden. Lucky you.
Don Stover


In a message dated 2/19/2012 4:49:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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When  letting the dog out a large raptor, clearly an eagle was soaring east
into  summit county.  Very broad wings, large head led me to suspect a juv
bald  eagle, until I got the binoculars on it and saw clear white on the
rump an  base of the tail, the bird did not have the white portions on the
bases of the  primaries. I could not distinguish the nape color. Do juv bald
eagles ever  present such a large, clean white rump/base of tail feathers while
such a  uniform clean upper side of the wing?  I did not get the see the
underwing, as I live on a rather large hill, and saw the top side of the wing
 as the bird was turning and flying downhill. It was very low.

Chris  Decker
Wadsworth
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