NY man saves bald eagle, helps nurse it to health

One bald eagle needed some helping hands. It was first thought to be struck by a car last week on Hutchinson River Parkway in New Rochelle, New York, a bedroom community outside New York City.

Tom Fear was driving home on Hutchinson River Parkway last week when he thought he saw a large plastic bag in the roadway. As he got closer he realized it was not a bag but a bald eagle. He stopped his car, backed up in the utility lane, and cautiously walked into the roadway to scoop up the bird with his bare hands. "It didn’t resist at all. I had my arms crossed. Its wings were folded in and its head was more or less lying on my forearm. It was not in great shape." Two women pulled over after seeing the 52-year-old with the bird and called the police, who contacted animal control expert Jim Horton, with QualityPro Pest & Wildlife Services. He said it’s the second time in the last few months that his company has been contacted to help an eagle in distress. Horton says it’s great what Fear did for the bird, calling it "a once-in-a-lifetime thing."