July 7th

Time to say goodbye to old feathered friends. Today the centers frozen bald eagles were being packaged and sent to the National Eagle Repository in Denver Colorado. Every eagle that passes away or doesn't make it at the Raptor Center has to be bagged and froze. The bodies are then sent to the repository and distributed to Native Americans that have applied for permits from the government. I bet we packaged 35 or so eagles from that previous year who have just been chilling in our large ice chests. As we were putting them in their fish box coffins Jen and Ange were recalling stories about the departed birds.


-Eagle coffins.


-A job well done.