It had been taking part in a display at Moreton-in-Marsh on Sunday and had failed to return. The eagle, which is named Wotan, had escaped from the Cotswold Falconry Centre near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. India said she had been outside the hotel when the eagle landed on her.
She said: "Suddenly it went into my hand and it's claws dug into me. I was shaking it all around and it wouldn't come off me." Mrs Arikan, who owns the Berwick Lodge Hotel, had been on the telephone on Monday evening when she heard her daughter shouting. She said: "India kept saying 'the eagle's on my arm, the eagle's on my arm and it won't come off.
"She was shaking it and there was blood pouring everywhere. I had to tell the gentleman I was speaking to on the phone I was sorry and I'd have to call him back because a bald eagle had just landed on my daughter's wrist. He said 'oh yes certainly' so I think he thought I was an absolute crackpot." Lloyd Buck, a Bristol-based bird trainer who works for the BBC's Natural History Unit, was called in to help and tempted the eagle from the roof using some lamb steak.
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2 comments:
about 3 or 4 joggers got hurt here as well, by an "escaped" buzzard - same situation : hand fed & raised animal, only wants to approach people to get food as it isn't used to catch it's own food
Next time a telemarketer calls me I'm using the 'sorry, I have to go, a bald eagle just landed daughters wrist' line.
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