N.S. father and son save bald eagle, take poke at Trump | The Moment

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AI GeneratedA fisherman rescued a bald eagle that became entangled in fishing lines and crashed into the water. After scooping the bird into the boat and returning to the dock, the narrator used pliers to remove the hooks from the eagle's beak and foot. Once recovered, the bird flew away safely, and the group jokingly gave it a new nickname.
He's gonna drown, you gotta grab it.
Bald eagle was following us while we were fishing.
Just following us.
It scooped down, grabbed our fishing lines, flew up in the sky, got tangled and hooked between his beak and his foot.
It kind of got tangled in the air and crashed into the water and started to drown.
Oh honey, he's drowning.
I had to like scoop it up into the boat with one hand, drive the boat with the other, hold it down.
As I was still driving the boat back to the dock, it was crazy.
That's it honey, that's it.
My mom came down with a towel which we wrapped it in.
I got the hooks out of its face and foot with the pliers.
We kind of stood there for a little bit and our dog didn't know what to do so we kind of chased after him a little while.
And it eventually flew away.
We renamed it the Canadian White-Headed Lake Raptor.
We're gonna call it something different than Lake Ontario, we're gonna call it Lake America.
So that was a good laugh.
There he goes.
I'm glad he's okay. The Canadian White-Headed Lake Raptor.
I don't know if it rolls off the tongue, but good on him.
