A juvenile bald eagle is treated for a bone fracture at Lindsay Wildlife Experience in Walnut Creek. Now fully recovered, the eagle was released at Redwood Regional Park in Oakland this past week. (Photo courtesy of Margaret Hara/Lindsay Wildlife Experience)

A juvenile bald eagle brought to Walnut Creek’s Lindsay Wildlife Experience wildlife hospital in March was returned to the wild Monday at Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, not far from where it was found, a Lindsay spokeswoman said.

Lindsay spokeswoman Jennifer Modenessi said the eagle was first spotted by a hiker in early March on a trail near the horse arena at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland, on the ground and unable to fly.

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