Just took these pix and really annoyed @ false focus lock, because these 2 circled together PLAYING TAG overhead for two or three full minutes! One would follow the other, then they'd zip into a tandem barrel roll and reverse their order! I know my locals & I know the important fieldmarks: wedge tail on smaller bird is raven--have seen these guys around up close, as with the few crows we get around here, and am 100% sure our crows are WAY smaller and have a curved tail, not a wedge. That means there are really only 2 things the larger bird could be, both of them dark or mostly dark and both of which have long wings held very straight (unlike the white base & back-swept primaries of the only other bird in that size class, the osprey, which isn't back yet)...bald or golden eagle, either way I'm freakin' ecstatic at having seen not only obvious play but the raven sweeping back through only a few minutes later, still doing barrel rolls for fun only right in front of my window.
