Flying Free

the long version

The day the female golden eagle was shot, Dan True was watching her nest from his blind. Driven to do something---anything---he rescued the two eggs she was sitting and transferred them to the nest of a neighbor’s hen. And he was there, excited as an expectant father, when one of them hatched!At first, he was reluctant to take on the job of eagle raising but the local federal game agent persuaded him to do it as an experiment to prove or disprove what many ornithologists claimed: that a people-r