I like your bad pictures! How awesome is that to have one visit your yard!?
I’m in south Texas, just outside of Houston, and we have/had a nesting pair near my home- a first in a very long time! I saw one of them when I was hiking a park near my home a couple of months ago. I tried to catch a picture, but it was just too far away to get a good picture. All I got was a lightly eagle shaped greyish blob. After asking around, I found that there are several Bald Eagles that have been spotted around the edges of Houston now.
This being Texas and all, we even made the news for this idiot who actually killed one with a pellet gun, leaving an orphaned chick. Eaglet orphaned after bald eagle mother killed doing well, group says
That’s one ugly baby! LOL! It was rescued and is being rehabbed now.
The person who shot the bird was young, 17, so they went easy on him. “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declined to prosecute (the person) because of his age, but Game Warden H. R. Volschenk of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department charged the minor with a Class A misdemeanor for hunting without a landowner’s consent. Game wardens also cited him for a Class C misdemeanor for the taking of a threatened species.”