Fred Gulden found a dead eagle while cleaning out his patio last Wednesday.
The eagle, big and brown-feathered, lay between his house on the shore of Rush Lake in Stanchfield and his dock, which is rolled up on shore for the winter, parallel to the house’s exterior wall.
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