25 years ago: Clinton Lake eaglets banded for monitoring

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 26, 1990:

  • Two of the three eaglets nesting at Clinton Lake were banded and fitted with radio transmitters this week. Park ranger Teresa Rasmussen said the birds had been captured by Mike Lockhart, a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, who had driven from Denver to trap and mark the birds. The young eagles had proved elusive, avoiding Lockhart’s traps for two full days before two of them had allowed themselves to be captured. Once the birds were trapped, two graduate students from Emporia State University fitted them with radio transmitters, placing them in the tail feathers where they would fall off in about six months during a molting period.
  • An overnight storm brought a half-inch of rain and 55 mph winds through Lawrence, causing several minor power outages throughout the city. Farmers, who had been hoping to test-cut their wheat crops, were kept out of their fields for another day. Local resident Bill Torneden, 716 Louisiana, had awoken to find that two of his vehicles, parked on opposite sides of the street, had been struck by the same tree limb, torn from a walnut tree during the storm. The windshields of both vehicles had been knocked out by the branch.