What an interesting day! Great photos. Here in Alaska where we have so many eagles, now and again after it is rehabilitated an eagle is released back into the wild.

I have been present at two of those releases. The moment when the eagle is given a toss into the air and its wings beat strongly whoosh, whoosh, whoosh as the eagle climbs up and up and then banks and aims at the branch of a tall spruce where it rests and reconnoiters for a moment or two is always exciting. It invariably looks around as though familiarizing itself with the whole concept of freedom. Then it rises and the branch of the spruce sways up and down as the weight is lifted and the large bird flies straight away and out of sight.