A Young Bald Eagle Plays With A Sprinkler At Flathead Lake, Montana

The young are always curious, and that's not just restricted to humans. While its parents were out fishing, this three-month-old bald eagle decided to explore its surroundings. Bird watcher Joan Robbins captured the moment the infant raptor discovered a garden spinkler and didn't quite know what to make of it.

Fierce predators like to let loose, too and not in a manner all that different from you and I. Like this juvenile bald eagle, for instance, who seems to have taken a fancy to playing in the sprinklers. Photographer Joan Robins captured the magnificent bird as it toyed with a pop-up sprinkler head on the shore of Montana's Flathead Lake earlier this summer. Robins added in a YouTube comment that the eagle played for around 20 minutes. "By that time," writes Robins, "he was soaking wet." But by the looks of it, this bird had a great time. See some of Robins' photos, below, or watch the video, at the end of the this article: