Iroquois NWR Eagles 2011

[MAK]

  A real feel good story! 

[Donna]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/19/138478525/eagle-love-story-injured-mates-reunited-at-rehab-center  Here's a feel-good story.  (Read more) 

"Two seriously injured bald eagles, found two months apart and more than a mile away from each other near the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge," in Western New York State, "were rescued and reunited in a wildlife rehabilitation facility in Medina last week,"



WOW, what a great story and may they live happily ever after.    Sad they are both injured and non-releasable but they have each other.

[patsy6]

Awww...

[OlRedHair]

Wonderful story!


Nora in NW Florida

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[Kris G.]

Shaky posted this story on here in 2011 under Iroquois NWR Eagles 2011.  Great story and good to read again. I wonder if they're still alive and together.

[Shaky]

I merged this with the original topic.

[Donna]

A couple updates:

10-17-2011

 Thanks for reminding me. I get so busy here getting ready for winter, that I forget to update the websites. The eagles are doing well. They are still here awaiting a decision by the NYS Dept of Envt Cons. as to their placement. I applied for the permits and they have interviewed me several times. I'm just waiting to hear their decision. If they grant me the permits then I have to apply to the federal govt (USFWS) for the same permits. Government wheels turn s l o w l y. While I am anxious to hear, I am also glad they are being so thorough. Until then the eagles are here. They are starting to accept me not as a threat, but a provider of food. While they still jump off their perch when I enter their enclosure, they also immediately look to see what I have in my hands. If it is food they will start food calling to me. They will also eat in front of me as long as I go to the far end of the enclosure and sit down. This brings my eye level down to theirs and makes me less of a threat. It may not seem like much but it is great progress. Up until a few weeks ago, I was always the evil one who caught them and restrained them and treated their wounds and medicated them. This process was twice a day and it was always stressful and often painful for them. So competeing with this memory has been a real hurdle for them and myself. I'll try to remember to update mroe frequently although if the permit comes you will probably be able to hear me cheering if you just open your windows. :O)

Feb 2012
Here's an update. I have not heard from the USFWS yet on the fate of our eagles except that they did cash my permit checks yesterday. So maybe sometime soon they will act on the permits. Either way, if they decide to permit me or not, I will lobby for them to be placed together regardless of where they ulitmately end up. They are doing well. They are eating us out of house and home. We brought in some road killed deer from the DEC so they wouldn't deplete our food supply for the rest of our birds for the winter. They are doing a good job of cleaning up the deer. We are planning to enlarge their current enclosure to widen it hopefully this summer. My husband Tim and I have been working out the details on how we can accomplish it without reducing the strength of the roof should we ever get snow in the winter again. All of the other birds are doing well also. The Great Horns were singing all night the other night. It was beautiful to hear. Our female will sing back to me if I call to her from the house. She's a real character. I'll update as I hear more.

Nothing after but I wrote to them.