Our Now Official National Bird

 As I was leaving Belle Isle, I saw this guy and I needed to get pictures as it is fairly timely.

Apparently, the bald eagle was not officially our national bird.  With everything that is emblazoned with the bald eagle, it was assumed that it was.  We have other official national things but apparently someone neglected to name the eagle the national bird.

That was taken care of last week and voted on by Congress (I believe it was nearly unanimous which is hard to believe).  So the bald eagle is now the official national bird of the United States.