ID help: possible eagle in Canadian Rockies

[Bob Fugate]

This is my first post here. [note to moderator: I tried posting this yesterday but I must have must done something wrong since I have not seen it in the forum. If it is a duplicate, just delete one of them. ]

I could use help identifying this bird. Looks like it might be an immature bald eagle? I was hoping it was a Golden Eagle but don't think so based on a bit of research.

Photo was take about 80 km south of Jasper, Alberta, Canada on the Icefield Parkway (route 93) at a rest stop on Friday, July 25, 2014.

Thanks,

Bob



http://www.rqfphoto.com/Photography/Places/Canadian-Rockies-2014/i-7zRrhF9/0/O/RF5_1162.jpg

[Daniel Cadieux]

Hi Bob, welcome to BPN!! Your thread(s) were held in moderation as the system does that to new members' first few posts as an anti-spam filter. The amount of white shown on this individual would indeed indicate a juvenile Bald Eagle (the juvenile Golden Eagles also have some white - but much less).

[Bob Fugate]

Thanks, Daniel. I'll keep trying for that Golden.