BANNER LAKES STATE WILDLIFE AREA — They came out in search of proof for the claim that “it gets better.”
They found it as a once-crippled bald eagle burst from her plastic carrier like a champagne cork and soared 500 feet to circle gracefully over the heads of the wildlife officers and volunteers who saved her.
It gets better than wading through a blood-stained ice and January slush toward cattails covered in more blood, to gather in a flailing, freezing eagle with a massively injured wing…