First Eaglet Released today........

Well what an experience to see the Audubon come back out to release the male Juvi Eagle(sister is another week away from release). He took his first flight into the wild after 3 weeks of rehab. Flew across the cemetery and had a rough landing in the first tree. Then he flew of again and we lost him somewhere in the cemetery. went back this evening and he was perched in the tree....adult were near by but never came in when we were there. Will heck it in the morning!


1
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/DSC_0517.jpg


2
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/DSC_0544.jpg]

3
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/DSC_0548.jpg


4
[IMG]http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h263/xmobe540/April%202010/DSC_0550.jpg">

5
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/DSC_0552.jpg

6
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/DSC_0553.jpg

7
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/DSC_0554.jpg

8
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/DSC_0557.jpg


9
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/DSC_0560.jpg



10
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/PIC_0388.jpg



11
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/PIC_0395.jpg



12
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...0/PIC_0514.jpg

Nice set of photos. Looks like the guy filming it should have followed you around because you had a much better angle. Thanks for letting us be a part of the experience, Jeff

Man, in shot 1 you really get to see just how big these birds are, wowzer.
Thanks Eric for the report and excellent photos.

I hope the reunion goes over well!!!!!

Man... it looks like WESH used the picture feature on a video camera!
http://www.wesh.com/slideshow/news/23036000/detail.html

Outstanding shots, Eric. Great to see him back where he belongs!

Eric.... thank you SO much! This gave me goose bumps! So awesome to see, I searched on Google for some video's of other releases and found these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDt3lTgOdkM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiwiQ9aHqwg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78wC1JYnlOo


and this last one actually made me tear up a bit:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rts6Uis9kA

Great success story... and pics of course!!!

Excellent !!!!!!

Great series of photos!

AWESOME!!! Thanks for sharing.

Nice stuff. I really like 8,10, 12 but they're all good and as was mentioned one can tell how big they are by the first few.
Looks like you had your pic taken a few times, too.