Injured West Mifflin bald eagle released after getting new feathers

[TootsieFootsie]

Injured West Mifflin bald eagle released after getting new feathers

SAEGERTOWN, Pa. (KDKA) - A young bald eagle that was injured when she fell out of her nest earlier this summer is soaring once more.
Back in June, Rosie the Riveter took a tumble from her nest near the U.S. Steel plant in West Mifflin. She was spotted on the live webcam and rescuers went out to help her.
At the Tamarack Wildlife Center, she was found to be missing all her primary flight feathers on one wing. The damaged feathers were replaced with donor flight feathers through a process called "imping."
After more than three months of rehab, all the hard work paid off for Rosie.

On Thursday, the wildlife center brought Rosie to restricted state game lands near Pymatuning Lake and released her for her first-ever flight in open skies.
The wildlife center says she circled over them three times then perched in a stand of trees. They say they picked that land because it has other eagles of all ages who congregate there through the winter and they expect Rosie will learn survival skills from them.
One of the men who released her was Don German from U.S. Steel. He's the one who spotted her fall from the nest and went out to rescue her.
"Our hearts are flying with her," the wildlife center wrote on Facebook.

 

[shotgun09]

Watching Eagles soar is my 'Zen'. Peaceful, graceful flight,
Thanks for sharing this!

 

[customCF]

how about a rehabbed chimpanzee being released by Jane Goodall and her team that then goes back and hugs them all before leaving

https://twitter.com/x/status/1568854994060713989

 

[cuffem]

Watching Eagles soar is my 'Zen'. Peaceful, graceful flight,
Thanks for sharing this!

I watch the Eagle cams every nesting year and first heard about them on Websleuths. Decorah and Catalina, Santa Cruz Islands are my favorite. I miss Spirit.

 

[shotgun09]

I watch the Eagle cams every nesting year and first heard about them on Websleuths. Decorah and Catalina, Santa Cruz Islands are my favorite. I miss Spirit.

I love all those nests! Although I am very partial to Catalina Islands. Cruz and Sprits nest was the very first I 'peeked' in on. So they both are very dear to me. Love the unique views that are given, not diminishing the knowledge gained from being able to do so! We can 'see' so much now!

 

[cuffem]

I love all those nests! Although I am very partial to Catalina Islands. Cruz and Sprits nest was the very first I 'peeked' in on. So they both are very dear to me. Love the unique views that are given, not diminishing the knowledge gained from being able to do so! We can 'see' so much now!

Thankfully there is plenty of food and resources on the Deborah and Catalina nests but I briefly watched a nest this year that had little food and 3 eaglettes, that did not go well and I could not watch. Nature can be cruel I know.

After reading about horrible human parents doing horrible things on here it is nice to see the partnership and extremes the eagle pairs go through to raise their young.

Sorry !Tootsie Footsie if I jacked your post, I had always wanted to comment on shotgun 09's avatar and your thread gave me the chance.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Sorry !Tootsie Footsie if I jacked your post, I had always wanted to comment on shotgun 09's avatar and your thread gave me the chance.

Hey no @cuffem, I'm hanging on your every word.
I love the avatar too, but didn't put two and two together.

I have been known to watch some of our Aussie eagles web streams here. It's wonderful, sometimes scary and sad when something happens. Like when one of our eagle's partner didn't come back to the nest and only one was left to feed the chicks.
In one case the partner didn't return, but a different one did and took over helping

 

[cuffem]

Hey no @cuffem, I'm hanging on your every word.
I love the avatar too, but didn't put two and two together.

I have been known to watch some of our Aussie eagles web streams here. It's wonderful, sometimes scary and sad when something happens. Like when one of our eagle's partner didn't come back to the nest and only one was left to feed the chicks.
In one case the partner didn't return, but a different one did and took over helping

There is a Decorah thread here on Websleuths. The Decorah eagles have a new nest but it is on private property. This year a goose nested in Decorah's nest and I watched all the goslings jump from the nest, it was pretty high up and one did not make it. You could hear the parents calling to the babies from the ground for them to follow.
They had people hidden in the bushes to make sure the goslings crossed a road and met up with parents at the creek.

There was drama on Two Harbors nest when the single eaglet fell out of the nest and was stuck on the side of the cliff.
Got to watch the rescue live.
All of these events can be watched on You Tube if you are interested.

 

[tlcya]

This summer I had the most amazing view of a nesting pair of red tail hawks. I have always been drawn to wolves and birds of prey. Hawks in particular. That is why my avatar has always been a hawk of some breed or other since I joined WS way back in 2009

There is a little hole in the wall biker bar that hubs and I frequent when on our bike. This summer a pair of mated hawks built their nest in a tree adjacent to that bar's parking lot. We watched them all season. From building the nest, to mating, to sitting the eggs, to taking turns going off to hunt for the babies, to the loss of one of the babies to the one who remained making his first flight. You haven't seen funny lookin til you've driven past the "lowlife" biker bar to see all these leather clad tough guys standing around craning to see up to the nest and discussing whether the hawks have laid eggs yet or have the eggs hatched, etc. All these tough guys and bedazzled women like myself, fascinated and invested in this little family.

I would go to the bar even when they were closed and just sit in the parking lot watching and photographing the hawks. My heart nearly broke when they were gone, having left the nest they no longer needed.

I absolutely love that they were able to rehab this eagle and repair the damaged wing. Thank you @TootsieFootsie for posting this story, I was in need of it.