More of the story

Hi again,

Sorry it took a couple days to get back to telling you my story. I think I left off talking about my human coming to visit me a lot and how I started getting used to seeing him. After a while more people started coming to see me, I tried really hard to be a big scary eagle to them too but they didn't scare off either. These humans can be pretty persistent! When they would bring me my dinner they were wearing something on their arm, it made me nervous at first but they didn't do anything with it to scare me so I let them in.

In January, I was minding my own business one day when all of a sudden someone threw something over me and I couldn't see. I was really scared and tried to fight back as hard as I could but the next thing I knew I was picked up and being carried away. When I finally got brought back to my mew, I had these leather bracelets on my feet! I was like, "hey, what do you think I am, a model or something"? I had them on before but it had been a while. I was starting to get the idea that something else was in store for me soon. And I was right!

In February, a new person came to see me with all of my other new friends, his name is Alex. He had something on his arm too but everyone else was wearing it so I figured what the heck, it must be a cool thing or something. He came in to see me and picked up the leather bracelets and tried to get me to step on the thing on his arm. "No way", I squawked but I don't think he speaks eagle talk! He was tickeling my feet so I gave in and got on the thing on his arm, I think I heard them call it a glove. I don't know what it is made of but it sure is strong, I squeezed it hard to make him let me go but he didn't even act like he felt it...time to do some salmon presses!!

I even tried to jump and fly away from him but those darn bracelets he was holding on to didn't let me get far. I got back on his glove and figured I would just sit here and give him grumpy eagle stares to try to scare him...didn't work. Then my other new friends took turns getting me on their gloves, it was actually kind of fun. The look in their eyes was kind of scared and excited too. I was pretty excited, and grumpy, getting to meet some new humans. After all they were being nice and bringing me dinner. Silly humans, they were shivering and shaking while we were out doing whatever it was they had me doing. I just rousted up my feathers and showed them who was queen of the cold.

I kept getting to go out with my new humans and walking around the place where I live. It was fun to get out of my mew and be grumpy with the humans to make them earn their...whatever it is they earn. Eventually, I got to spend more time with the humans and started doing what they call practice? I don't need practice, I already know how to be an eagle, silly humans. I guess the practice was for them, they had to keep getting me up on their glove, walking with me and then get up in front of people and talk about me. I was like, you better get it right buster or I will peck you on the forehead (I never did..just a nibble on the hands now and then to keep the silly humans in line). I don't see some of the other humans any more, I hope I didn't really scare them off.

After a lot of these practice things and biting on a few hands...he he, the practice was over at the end of May and my human Todd was so happy. The people he was telling about me were happy for him too. Don't forget, it wouldn't have happened without me buster! Show me a hand, I need a snack! Well this was the end of May now, boy time flies like and eagle when you are having fun. All the time in between was filled with lots of visits, walks, and that practice thing.

Since then my human has taken me all over seeing lots of friendly people. We have been as far south as Kenai and just recently we went way up to Prudhoe Bay, boy was it cold and windy. I will fill you in later on some of the places my human has taken me. I heard them talking about something they call owloween. What the heck is that, they should be talking about eagleoween. I guess my human is going to take me so I can see what all the fuss is about. I think he said it was going to be on the 26th of October here where I live. I hope I will ge to see more people there. Have a good night, time for dinner and a nap.

Petra

How I came to the Bird TLC

Hi everyone, I have some time so I thought I would share some information with you all about how I came to live at the Bird Treatment and Learning Center. When I was younger I lived in Cordova. I was hungry and looking for some lunch when I found something tasty looking to eat. When I grabbed it so I could eat it, it grabbed me back. From what my human Todd says, it was a trap. While I was stuck in the trap I was trying hard to get out of it and banged up my left wing. Fortunately, a nice person saw me and got me out of the trap and sent up here to Anchorage. The nice people at the Bird TLC took really good care of me and let me eat all I wanted, a salmon buffet. Boy was it yummy.

Eventually, the people at the Bird TLC said I was getting better and wanted to let me go so I could go back to Cordova. They took me to a place they call the flight pens so I could be with some of my relatives who were also getting ready to go home. I was really excited to exercise and fly again after being hurt and not feeling well for most of the summer. When I started trying to fly my left wing hurt and made me feel not so good again. They took me back to the Bird TLC a couple of times to help make me feel better ( I need to learn how to speak human so I can tell them things) but it didn't work out.

I got to live with a nice lady named Leslie for a long time and she took me all over the state seeing people and talking about me, I was like "wow I must be famous or something, all these people want to see me and find out about me". In the winter of 2006 the people at the Bird TLC told me the Lady I lived with was in a bad accident and wouldn't be back to see me any more. I was so sad.

After a while, I met some new people. I didn't know who they were or what they wanted and I did my best grumpy eagle to try to scare them away but they were pretty fiesty too and stayed around. They brought me food and talked to me, so I let them in with me. In January 2007, my new human, Todd, started coming to see me a lot. He would bring me food, talk to me and sometimes he would just stand in my mew and not say anything. At first I was like, what is this guy doing, who does he think he is? After a while I kind of got used to him coming in and visiting and kind of liked it.

Whew, my talons are getting sore from typing so much. I am going to take a rest, eat some dinner that my human brought for me. I might roust up my feathers and preen myself up a little to get ready for winter. I will continue this story later. Thanks for stopping by and maybe I will see you out in town one day.

Petra

P.S. I talked my human into putting a picture of us both on here, I am still learning this human computer stuff!!