A U.S. Army veteran rescued a bald eagle that was entangled in a rope and was hanging from a tree about 70 feet from the ground.
Jason Galvin used a .22-caliber rifle with a scope to fire about 150 shots at the rope tangled around the eagle’s leg in Rush City, Minnesota, according to a Facebook post from his wife, Jackie, on July 1. The bird was hanging upside down near the couple’s cabin.
A local official told them they couldn’t do anything to help the eagle—even though it had been there for nearly three days. They believed the bird had died.
“I told them they were wrong and it was very much alive and somebody needed to help it immediately! They all said sorry but there was nothing they could do,” Jackie wrote. “I told Jason he had to shoot it free! He was nervous as he didn’t want to get in trouble for shooting at an eagle but I know with his sharp shooter skills that if anyone would save this eagle it was him.”
