>A well-fed, robust all-dark
>immature Baldie has and can be surprisingly hard to separate from an adult
>Golden.
>
>Michael Price

Interesting, I wouldn't have thought to caution against that mistake. I
guess, having cut my teeth where goldens were year-round residents, and
baldies winter residents, I came to regard their flight profiles as so
different that one would never mistake one for the other, unless they were
a looong way off. The board flatness of a baldy vs. the slight dihedral of
a golden; the difference in cadence of powered flight; the head size
difference; different habits and habitats... I hope I can find one of these
fat, dark baldies to test myself sometime.

Rob Saecker
Olympia