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birdcamfan:
Ah! What a nice thing to read. Thank you.
susha:
Thanks for sharing this story, Cadria! Beautiful!!
MayShowers:
What a wonderful story. Brought a tear to my eye. :)
cadria:
I just wanted to share this story with all of you in case you hadn't heard it. There is a Bald Eagle cam in central Minnesota and, at the beginning of April, 2 chicks hatched. This nest has had a rough time. At the end of April, one of the chicks fell from the nest. Sadly, he did not make it. Then, a few days later, after a lot of rain and Mom doing some nestoration, Harmon, the remaining chick, got his wing stuck in a hole in the nest. For 24 hours, we watched and waited and begged the powers that be to help him out. Finally, after a lot of consideration and obtaining a permit from their Fish and Wildlife Service, a man from the Raptor Center went up the tree to check out Harmon. He checked him over and decided that he needed a bit of rehab, so he was taken off to the Raptor Center. He was incredibly distressed from trying to get out and his injury had maggots on it! :o He did remarkably well and in just under 48 hours, they were able to return him. Apparently, after that amount of time, it is very unlikely that parents will return to a nest.
Everybody watched and waited and prayed...and waited and watched. He had been fed, but was pretty young to be taking care of himself. We were all devastated when he had to spend that first night alone. Then, as if all the prayers had been heard, just after 7:00 CST ( about 26 hours later), Dad just plopped down on the nest!! It was the most glorious sight!!! The volunteers had left cut up fish so that when the parents came back, they could feed him right away instead of having to go out and hunt. Within about 5 minutes, Mom dropped down onto the nest. Harmon was just delighted and squealing!! They both started feeding him and stuffing him. The parents have been so attentive. Unbeknownst to us, the crew was on the ground, about 30 minutes away from going up and getting Harmon, as they did now want him to be alone another night with predators. However, they saw the parents circling and held their breath and hoped and we were all rewarded....especially Harmon!
It was such a happy ending and while people might comment that we should let nature take it's course, my thoughts are that there is no reason a helping hand should not be offered out, especially since man causes loads of problems for animals. :)
Anyway, here is a link to one of the stories and if you follow it, you can read the other blog stories.
http://theraptorcenternews.blogspot.ca/2012/05/what-amazing-finale-to-very-busy-few.html
Here is the reunion video:
http://youtu.be/s0BsVUr8UT4
It was such a marvelous sight to behold. Unfortunately for my mom, I was on the phone with her when Dad landed. I yelled, "OMG, Dad's back!" into the phone. ....heh, heh...good thing we were on speaker phone! :)
Kinderchick:
Hmmm... That is a very strange article. Never heard of the killing of bald eagles to be an acceptable practice by anyone, legally or otherwise. :'(
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