Lake County Record-Bee - Lake County News
The eagle's story began April 13 when Jim Calloway noticed the eagle's feet sticking above the tall grass in a pasture at Witter Springs. Her head and feet were covered with cuts and her left wing was broken. Calloway called the center for help. Elliott then called her husband, Mike, who was working near where the eagle was found and asked him to pick her up. Jim and his wife, Jeannie, assisted with the capture. When the eagle got to the center, Elliott examined her, gave her antibiotics and fluids and placed her in a large plastic tub to limit her movements for the night. The next morning, Elliott transported the eagle to Wasson Memorial Veterinary Hospital in Lakeport, where Dr. Chris Holmes X-rayed the wing and found it to be a repairable fracture. Two hours later, Holmes and his staff pinned the bone and repaired the wing. The eagle was taken back to the center, which is in Loch Lomond.
Elliott writes, 'Physical capture and restraint causes eagles enormous stress and may result in their death, so medications were injected into the trout it ate twice daily.'
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