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Red-tails Reprieved 
By LETA D. MCMASTER 
May 11, 1938, two large fledglings were found in our fairgrounds. 
The finders reported many chicken feathers in the nest and chicken 
bones nearby, and so they removed the young birds. 
They were placed on exhibition down town where they almost died 
cf starvation. Our local paper described them as eagles found in the 
fairgrounds; but when the story appeared in a Chicago paper, May 
16, not only were they called eagles but it was reported that the nest 
had been found in the grandstand at the fairgrounds! Actually the 
nest was in a tree, in a grove near the Kishwaukee river. 
Following the appearance of the newspaper story I was unable 
to locate the young birds and made little effort to do so. I concluded 
they were dead and that, in their downy stage, probably I should not 
be able to identify them. 
As it happened, a kind hearted citizen, Mr. Clyde Andrus, saw 
the desperate condition of the birds and after a day or two took 
them home. They were too weak to stand and could scarcely swallow, 
but he forced a heaping teaspoonful of ground steak down each throat 
several times a day and soon they were spry as could be. 
