Fly Free as a Bird

How would it feel to soar across the skies and not caring what the world thought about you or what you were doing? Soaring at 44 miles per hour. Being an animal so rare and unique in North America would make you feel special, but how would you know right? Eating out of the river, or lake to feel the slippery fish scales gliding down your throat. Well, won't sound or feel too good but still just the fact of being alive and roaming your territory in the sky is all you ever wanted and all you ever need.

You're a Bald Eagle, North America's national bird. How does that feel? You and your family or friends all roam over most of North America, from Alaska and Canada in northern Mexico, but you prefer Alaska. The reason why you flourish in Alaska, and the northwest coast of North America and British Columbia is because of the plenty resources for food. You love fish, can't get enough of it. Plus it is free and only requires you to catch it with your powerful talons, which your pretty sure it's not sweat.

The sky is clear and you just sit on a tall bent tree stump over looking the area in front of you with nothing to think about. Out of nowhere you see some of your Accipitridae family members which are the swift hawk, kites, and the vulgar vulture. You really don't have a problem with them because they all scourge different meals than you do so you look the other way in hopes of something that seems endless. Flapping your wings slowly with ease you stretch out your wings to shake a little dust off.

You fly over to your nest which you built an average of 2 feet deep and 5 feet wide lined with twigs, soft mosses, grasses and feathers. Just in time to see your newly hatched Bald Eaglets crack out of their shells. Out comes a light grey youngling' that won't be around you for long and leave the nest in about 12 weeks. They love you, but no hard feelings, time for them to move on. Too bad only half of your beloved Eaglets will be able to survive by themselves.

As a bird it feels like you are one with the rest of your kind of species but the dreadful truth is you are a limited breed. Hoping no one threatens you or disturbs your process of breeding, feeding or sheltering practices, which would lead to the death or injury to you or you nest. You're the icon of the nation and proud to be it life full of freedom.