What you, your fiance, and your father saw were most likely juvenile bald eagels which were 1-2 years old.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?_adv_prop=image&fr=yhs-FreeCause-shopathome_001&sz=all&va=juvenile+bald+eagle&hspart=FreeCause&hsimp=yhs-shopathome_001


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Bill Anderson; Edmonds, WA. USA