When a young bald eagle was spotted sitting on the ice in Waukegan Harbor and not moving, a Chicago Bird Collisions Monitor volunteer raced to help.
for years, but the call he got on Sunday was a new one.And this rescue was risky.
Bird-watchers reached out to the rescue group after spotting a bald eagle floating on a single piece of ice in Waukegan Harbor."The bird looked really miserable. It was wet, bedraggled, and when I got there, it didn't move at all. From the time I saw it to the time they got it in the net, I didn't even see it blink its eyes," Tibensky said.
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