New lease on life in Burbank
Onlookers braved Saturday’s chilly temperatures to watch the release of a young female bald eagle, still with dark feathers on her head, by the Blue Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitation Center’s executive director Lynn Tompkins at McNary National Wildlife Refuge in Burbank.
A Richland man found the large bird under a bush in his backyard in January 2018 and he called Blue Mountain Wildlife for help. She needed more than a year of rehabilitation to return to the wild. A second eagle was not ready to be released on Saturday.
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This story was originally published February 23, 2019 at 8:56 PM.