Posted on 06/19/2013 7:34:22 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Man Rescues Bald Eagle, Could Face Jail Time
An Indiana man was charged this week with the unlawful possession of a bald eagle, which the man says he cared for and rescued from the mud pit in which it was trapped. The former Department of Natural Resources employee, Jeffrey Henry, could face up to 60 days of jail time and a $500 fine as part of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, Yahoo reports:
As reported by WISH News 8, Henry had the bird in his home for 11 hours after several weeks of caring for the sick animal in the wild. The outdoorsman told the station that he noticed the bird a few weeks ago when he was hunting for mushrooms in Putnam County. The eagle was unable to fly, stuck in mud, and hungry, so he fed it fish eventually two times a day. When campers on four-wheelers arrived in the area, Henry suspected the grounded eagle would be in danger.
He said, I took him a fish out there and as we was leaving, the bird starting following me, and continued to follow me, theres no way to actually chase him off because hed turn around and run right back to me. So I put the bird up on my arm and we got in the truck and took him to the house. Having previously worked for the DNR, Henry knew he was breaking the law saying, Im probably going to be in a little bit of trouble, which I understand. Though Henry believes he made the right choice adding, I chose to take the punishment over the welfare of the bird.
Henry said he planned to take the bird, which he named Freedom, to the Indianapolis Zoo.
Eagles and other raptors have faced difficult times under the Obama administration, as clean-energy subsidies fuel wind turbines that can decapitate and injure the birds.
God our government is soooooooooooooooooo stupid and depraved
Death culture rides again.
There are thousands of those bird-killing wind turbines in parts of Indiana.
The Bald Eagle would call them stupid if it could talk!
Liberals keep their minds so open that their brains have fallen out!
SPLAT!
There's just something philosophically wrong about that sentence.
My personal experiences with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the state fin, fur, and feather departments of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Washington leave me with the impression that a good percentage of the “game wardens” are power mad wannabe cops with severe personality disorders who should not be trusted with guns.
Their interests are not with the welfare of the wildlife but rather in enforcing inane laws that make life difficult for their enemies, i.e. We the People.
Yet...big Wind Farm’s get waivers to kill 10 Bald Eagles a year...no problem.
Insanity of the left.
It's disheartening to view youtubes of beautiful Golden Eagles getting their wing clipped and see them fall to their death.
Without taxpayer subsidies none of these idiotic, inefficient wind farms would exist.
The left is all about DEATH. They are Godless and cruel.
There should be no bald eagles.
- The American Hairdresser Association.
I remember that.
And worse yet, she found the freaking Eagle feather on the ground somewhere. Not like she plucked the damn thing from the birds back side.
guy saves eagle, gets fined.
govt wind turbines hack eagles to death, that’s fine.
if govt was really smart they’d sue the eagle. ignorance of the law is no excuse.
“Bird male pattern baldness. Hi, I’m Sally Strothers (sob) ...”
You don’t see many birds with a good, thick head of hair.
So how did our national symbol get stuck with that name?
There's just something philosophically wrong about that sentence.
Once critters have imprinted on humans they are less safe in the wild. Not every human approached by the eagle would understand that he is only looking for a handout!
We own a sailboat that we have docked in a marina in Ventura. Awhile back we had a sea lion crawl up on the dock and give birth. It is illegal to mess with them so the area was totally taped off so she would not be bothered. Yeah it was a huge inconvenience for everyone on the dock.
> It’s disheartening to view youtubes of beautiful Golden Eagles getting their wing clipped and see them fall to their death.
I trust you will post links to the videos you describe... All I can find are videos that show generators turning, and dead birds of undetermined cause of death on the ground.
Two questions for you.
1. In many years of reading about this problem, videos such as you describe are extremely rare (I have only seen one). I would think it would be easy to document actual collisions, given the low cost of video cams and radio links these days. Yet it’s nearly all talk, no hard evidence. Links to the videos you mention, please?
2. Given that all life is sacred, and the life of a small bird is no less precious in God’s view than that of a big bird, does the fact that domestic cats kill 10’s of MILLIONS of birds every year meant that you want to outlaw cats as pets also? Automobiles kill millions of birds large and small every year... Do you wish to outlaw cars?
I’m not arguing the pros of wind power... Big Wind is a freakin’ boondoggle in my opinion. And as a wildlife rehabilitator who spent many years saving birds, I know personally that every avian death is a tragedy, large or small.
Just sayin’, where is the evidence, and where is the perspective?
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