AWKWARD ANGLE: At 7 am, the second call of the day was for a bald eagle that was standing still, trying to move but clearly injured. She had fought valiantly with another bald eagle which slammed her into a deck’s stone steps.
Her wing was hanging at an awkward angle and her beak was bleeding. The homeowner was very alarmed and called Powell River Orphaned Wildlife Society (PROWLS) right away. She was an easy catch, allowing the rescuers to walk up, wrap her in a blanket and place her in a kennel.
OWL, the raptor rehabilitation experts in Delta, was called and arrangements were made to send her out right away. Fortunately there was a Pacific Coastal Airlines flight leaving soon and their staff cleared the way for the eagle to be checked in and put on the flight; she was in Vancouver in under two hours. It did not look good for this mature female.
A week later when Merrilee Prior, the founder of PROWLS, called for an update, OWL reported that her badly fractured wing had been pinned, the broken beak had been glued and was healing, and she was a model patient.
Her recovery will be long, but PROWLS looks forward to her return to the qathet region, and to seeing her soar once again in her native environment.
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