After recovering at The Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Maitland, Florida.
For the second time in her 19 years, Florida Bald Eagle # 512 was released into the wild near Brooksville. She was released into Ahhochee Hill Audubon Sanctuary, a preserve just outside Brooksville on Wednesday afternoon. The eagle has spent the past three months recovering from injuries she received in a fight protecting her nest in Palm Harbor. A younger female eagle pinned her to the ground with her talons and plucked the feathers from her chest. It was near this same area that she was released back into the wild in 1998 after she had been shot with a bullet through her leg and wing two years earlier in Palm Harbor. It is amazing she flew over 50 miles to find her way home. Hopefully she will make her nest in the Hernando County area, but, she found her way home before. I am sure she will again.
