The adult Bald Eagle had been standing in the same shallow pocket of river water for so long that the first person who noticed it eventually stopped believing the bird was simply fishing. In this fictionalized wildlife-rescue case, the eagle was found along a quiet stretch of river in western Montana on a cool morning when the water was low enough to expose gravel bars and narrow shelves of rock along the bank. At first glance, nothing about the scene seemed especially alarming.
