I am copying this SPOT Update from the Luduskalender.ee LSE forum. I would have posted the actual webpage for the online article but it is in Estonian. Thankfully, the members of the forum are very accomodating in translating the Estonian into English for the rest of the world to read.
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Some Saturday reading, translation of the Eesti Päevaleht article; Kuremari has told the important facts from it.
Link to EPL article (Thanks, Kuremari)-I did not copy the link itself since most of us dont speak Estonian. The forum members there however are gracious enough to translate the Estonian articles into english for the non Estonians on the forum:)^
EPL Eesti Päevaleht
18. september 2009 08:00
Author: Ulvar Käärt
Lesser spotted eagle celebrity Spot in „hospital” just before autumn migration
FOTO by Kaja Kübar; Link to Mutikluti's forum post with photo here
If the wing heals within the next few weeks Spot has a chance to go south before winter.
The eaglet in the nest of lesser spotted eagles Koit and Eha, Spot, who grew up this summer in view of the webcam and whose smallest movement was observed by thousands of eyes all over the world was brought just before the migration with an injured wing to the Nigula Wild Animal Rehab Centre.
Mihkel Juhkam who found the eagle this weekend in a sorry state near the nesting place in Jõgevamaa said that he had simply gone out to pick mushrooms. „I hadn’t seen any mushrooms yet when I found him under a tree about 100 m from the road”, Mihkel Juhkam says.
The eagle who huddled under the tree almost completely apathetic let itself be put into a box without resistance and could be brought to the experts.
Kaja Kübar, director of the wild animal rehabilitation centre in Pärnumaa explained that the right wing of the eagle had received a quite hard knock and a large haematoma had formed at the wing bone (ulna) . Special creams are now used to medicate this.
Since the wing bones aren’t broken Kaja Kübar believes that the young hothead had careered into a tree or a branch.
Kaja Kübar also said that when the eagle arrived at the centre a good sign was that he had a very good appetite. It was enough to put the food near the beak, and he gobbled it up. „Obviously he had already gone without food for several days before being found”, she said.
So if Mihkel Juhkam had started his mushroom hunt only some ten metres further away the young eagle who is in the highest-listed protection class, would have died of hunger in his helpless state, or some fox would have made a meal of him.
The first few days the eagle had to be fed by hand, but now, stronger, he tears the meat off the chicken legs himself.
Urmas Sellis from the Eagle Club thinks that if Spot doesn’t get well during this month then his first migration journey to the south will be off, and he will have to spend the winter in Nigula.
Kaja Kübar believes optimistically that Spot, who has gained strength very well during the last few days, can soon be let out to freedom, and will have the time to get away before winter.
Eagles were watched on the web by viewers from more than 100 countries
•• Growing up in sight of the real-time working web camera, lesser spotted eagle Spot became a rare bird celebrity like Tooni and Donna
•• From the moment when two eggs appeared in Koit’s and Eha’s nest this spring, this real-life serial became a surprising success. And not only in Estonia but in the whole world.
•• In a short time Spot won the hearts of fans from more than 100 countries. Altogether nature enthusiasts clicked to watch the camera nearly 1,5 million times. The name Spot was given by dedicated watchers outside Estonia.
•• Spot’s mother Eha went on the journey to Africa already in August, father, Koit left about a week ago.
•• Lesser spotted eagles belong to the highest-listed protection category of endangered species. Up to 600 pairs are thought to nest in Estonia.
•• The lesser spotted eagle is the most frequently seen eagle species in Estonia.
•• Following ruling from the Ministry of Environment in a first stage 15 permanent nesting locations of lesser spotted eagles will be protected. The protection will include one nesting location in east Virumaa, 2 in Läänemaa, 1 in estern Virumaa, 2 inPõlvamaa, 4 in Raplamaa, 1 in Tartumaa, 1 in Vijandimaa and 2 in Võrumaa,
Note to our moderators! I hope that i have sufficently credited the source of the above material because they deserve to be recognized for thier "spreading the faith" we all have in the preservation of our eagles. I wouldnt want to ruffle anyone's feathers after all
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Thanks for posting the pics!
It does put things in perspective , doesn't it? The nest looks really small with this bird in it . . . 
Thanks for letting us know, PattiO. 
Oh My....guess I was posting when you were putting in the picture....WOW...how great is that...and definitely a bad "hair day"...or maybe that's a good "hair day" for eagles!!!
