This bald eagle was found in the city totally unable to fly so was brought to City Wildlife for treatment. Turned out the eagle had eaten too much, and that was the reason it couldn’t get off the ground. As soon as his meal had digested, he was ready to leave.

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We went to the annual open house of City Wildlife, the only organization in the District of Columbia that rescues and rehabilitates the city’s wildlife. They hold this event every winter, when there are few animals being treated at the facility, and they don’t offer tours the rest of the year because they feel their patients would be too stressed with people constantly gawking at them. This will be a very small gallery, with some pictures of past residents and other things I was able to photograph, but it was very interesting and heartening to see that they have filled the gap for a service that was sadly lacking here.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

‘Game Fish,’ Larry Fuente, 1988 (1/3), posted earlier: