Avid birdwatchers saw a mother and baby bald eagles fall just hours apart — so they called for help.

“We care a lot about these eagles,” local birdwatcher John Payne told McClatchy News in a phone interview.

The initial call came in about the mother, Athena, according to Gary Comer at the Ohio Division of Wildlife. She fell from her perch into the adjacent river near Grandview Heights on Friday, Aug. 1, then dragged herself to the shore, Comer said in an email.

She made it back onto her perch, but onlookers noticed her slouched head and closed eyes, according to Comer.

Rescuers arrived and used a boat to get closer to Athena, but Comer said she flew upstream and couldn’t be located.

While looking to help Athena, birdwatchers noticed the baby eagle in the nest, Star, showing similar sy

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