Colorado bald eagle capture takes place amid million

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Colorado Parks and Wildlife researchers are studying bald eagles along the Front Range to understand how the growing human and eagle populations coexist.

Bald eagle populations are increasing in Colorado and Wyoming.

Loud 1970s music poured out of pickup speakers as Mike Lockhart meticulously threaded a line through a tiny hole to affix a GPS transmitter harness to the back of a female bald eagle among million dollar homes in Windsor.

While the blaring music is normal when Lockhart handles captured bald eagles (more on that later), the setting among expansive homes in Windsor is not. And he's been doing this for more than 50 years, 33 with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the past 20 as a private contractor, mainly in Colorado and Wyoming.

The May 23 capture