Today I watched a mature Bald Eagle spin and crash into the water like a 
plane that had one of its wings shot off, or a Maple seed.  I only saw the 
last 30 feet of the descent.  People theorize that perhaps it hit the power 
line, and I think that is a good hypothesis.  It floated downstream past the 
island and was able to get up on a rocky sandbar downstream.  And it flopped 
back into the water.  DNR launched a boat there, and the officer rescued it. 
  I hope it is OK, A Wildlife Rescue person, sorry I do not know her name, 
took it to Gerda Deterer's Rehab Center in Hampstead, MD.  This took hours, 
and I hope the bird is OK.  I think that water had to be cold, it was in it 
for a long time.  One wonders about hypothermia, that sort of thing.

Greg Futral
Baltimore, MD