Researcher Rachel Wheat, who started tracking eagles from Haines with satellite technology two years ago, said she’s had a half-dozen close calls with birds flying near her truck along the Haines Highway.
Her first collision came during the Alaska Bald Eagle Festival Nov. 12, when a mature, female eagle was killed after taking off into the bumper of Wheat’s Dodge Dakota.
Wheat said she was heading west near 21 Mile Haines Highway around 3 p.m.,…
