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Photo courtesy of Jerry Davis
This young Iowa County eagle was blown from its nest before it could fly very far.
An early fledging Bald Eagle, hurried by a windstorm in mid-June which put the bird on the ground, unable to fly far or high. The bird remained for several days perched six feet above the ground on bare branches and with no shade. The young bird could limb-walk, hop and fly a few feet but not do much elevating. The normal fledging time is 70-98 days.
From time to time one, sometimes both, adults, would perch in the live tree above the "stranded" young eagle. Five days after the early flight, one adult was seen pulling apart a small mammal near the young bird. Both the parent an...
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