It’s not 17 Rhodesian Ridgeback puppies, but a woman in Sterling, Virginia came home to find an unusual pair of animals on her front yard when she returned from a morning of Christmas shopping. Jan Hobbs, 64, discovered a pair of bald eagles in her front yard, their talons tangled together. Sterling, a suburb of Washington, D.C., is not exactly an eagle hotbed. In fact, Hobbs says she’s lived in her home on Gordon Street since 1971 and has never seen a bald eagle before, until her close encounter.
“I pulled into the driveway, and when I opened the door, I heard this horrible racket,” Hobbs said. She described how the eagles appeared to be locked together, flapping their wings in an attempt to loosen themselves from whatever was holding them together. She speculates, “They might have gotten their talons tangled. They were probably as scared of me as I was in awe of them.”
She called her daughter, called animal control, and then got out her camera, capturing the image of the tangled bald eagles on her yard. However, before the authorities could arrive, the animals were able to untangle themselves and successfully flew away. There are 680 breeding pairs of bald eagles in Virginia, which is appropriate considering its proximity to Washington, D.C. and its status as our national animal symbol.
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