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RE: The story of how I rescued a young Bald Eagle 🦅 - Life Goal ✔️
Oh my god.. how incredible! It's amazing how calm the eagle stayed when you grabbed it. When you let go, i'm sure you did feel like you were floating, I can't believe you're doing this shirtless, how scary....
When you talk of destroying the nest to get rid of the hangers on young, what are hangers on young?
That is such a cool story!!! I like that you gave us the multiple day updates on it. I'm sure you're right too, that eagle came to say goodbye and thank you!
Thanks for sharing those beautiful moments
The young hangers on are the fledged young that just don't want to leave the nest. Once they are flying and hunting sometimes they have a hard time letting go of the parents and keep coming back to the nest. The parents will finish off destroying the nest to remove the fledglings "home". The parents will sometimes just take off and leave the young who keep coming back to the nest. Last year they didn't need to kill the nest so there is still a good amount of it left in the tree for this round of laying/hatching.
Oh wow ok, got it. It's really interesting, you're ready, get out there but if you come back... I'll take the nest away!!!
Ok thanks