Lorena facility aims to rehabilitate rescued wildlife A menagerie of injured and abandoned wild animals are finding care at Wildlife Rehab Lorena,…

By late afternoon Sine said the lethargic eagle had perked up and appeared not to have any broken bones. Neither eagle was eating the food Sine put out for them, but she said their appetite will probably return soon. Both birds were disoriented and resting, she said.

“Even though they’re really big babies, they still act like babies and lie on their chests,” she said.

Still, she said the eagles should need only a few weeks of rehabilitation before they are released back into the wild. She said she hopes the nesting pair of eagles at Reynolds Creek will recognize them and stay with them as they learn to hunt.

Eagles have been nesting at Lake Waco each year since 2009, but they often choose tall trees with weak branches. This is the third time a nest with chicks has fallen, but the first time the chicks have lived, said Moore, who has been photographing the eagles since the beginning. Seeing those eagles fall and die never gets easier, Moore said.

“You sit there for hours watching them, and the birds look down at you,” he said. “You know you’ve invested a lot of time in them, and it’s difficult. … How good it is to have Mark Chapman, who persevered the elements and freed them. Another hour, and that chick could have died.”