Friday, August 22, 2008

Can you blame her for being angry?

Harriet, age 26, is one of three bald eagles in permanent residence at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, MN. The eagle study and rehabilitation center is located along the banks of the Mississippi and the raptors’ migratory path.

While recognizing their regal bearing, bald eagles have always seemed to me to have an angry or disapproving look about them.

Harriet, who came to live at the Center after being hit by a car while feeding on some road kill, still retains a somewhat disheveled appearance.

Considering what the nation has endured these past years, the look seems fitting. She was a guest on the
Colbert Report last summer on the occasion of her species being removed from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s endangered list.

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