Bald Eagle Tends to Nest As Single Dad

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/apr/07/040709286.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Within earshot of traffic roaring along the Capital Beltway, a suddenly single dad is waging a quiet struggle to save his offspring - a nest of bald eagle eggs on the verge of hatching.

The eagle, nicknamed George by workers building a new Beltway bridge, lost his mate, Martha, when she was attacked by another female eagle Wednesday. The aggressor may have been trying to take over George and Martha's nest in suburban Maryland, which is valuable real estate for the area's booming bald eagle population.

After watching Martha fall in a dramatic midair battle, construction workers sought help from Stephanie R. Spears, an environmental specialist working with the Woodrow Wilson Bridge project.

Spears rushed the bleeding mother eagle to a veterinary hospital in Newark, Del., where she was being treated for puncture wounds and a damaged beak that may need weeks of rehabilitation.

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[skooooo]

1. Someone needs to tell Stephen Colbert!

[phantom power]

2. That puts my home-ownership headaches into perspective.

[joeybee12]

3. Bald eagles are wonderful parents...they both raise the offspring...

...one stands guard while the other hunts, and then they reverse roles. Watched a pair in yellowstone last summer--those chicks were never left alone until the aprents deemed it time for them to leave, and then Mom and Pop just took off, never to return.

[roguevalley]

4. I love them. they are all over up here. Noble animals and good

parents. I hope they release her in time to return to him. this is going to be tough. they get cold.

[xchrom]

5. nobility personified.