Local musicians were helping out St. Francis Wildlife over the weekend with a fundraising concert at the Lake Ella American Legion.
The local chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association International provided the benefit’s music, performers including Skyhouse 2: (music plays)
The goal, says St. Francis Wildlife’s Kate Chunka, raising enough to build an enclosure big enough for injured adult eagles to re-learn how to fly.
“One-hundred feet long, 16 feet tall, 20 foot wide flight enclosure, which is quite a large facility. So we’ve been raising money. We’ve been doing so for the last year-and-a-half quite frankly to be able to build that special flight enclosure and break ground in the fall to allow so many local Tallahassee eagles to rehabilitate right here in town.”
Chunka says other facilities in the region are already at capacity. She says the area’s eagle population is steadily overlapping the places where people live as the birds’ natural habitat shrinks.
