Big Birds in the Wild

So Devon and I took our bikes for a short-ish training ride this morning. We logged about twenty (20) easy miles today and passed through the multi-use trail in Smith-Bybee Lakes Park. On our way through the park, Dev saw a bird take off and start flying ahead of and away from us. It looked bigger than a hawk and it didn't fly like a buzzard.
Minutes later we caught up to this older gentleman and his hyper-active black labrador and he asked if we had seen the bald eagle. Two seconds later the bird flew back by us and we could see the snowy feathers on it head and tail. It was a very cool moment to see an endangered species out and around in the real world and not behind the glass of a zoo enclosure.