An old male bald eagle who adopted a rock as an egg finally got his own real foster baby

An old male bald eagle who adopted a rock as an egg finally got his own real foster baby

On March 8, 2023, a keeper at World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis County, Missouri, noticed something odd. A male bald eagle named Murphy was guarding what appeared to be a large depression in the ground. “The spot was sparsely but carefully decorated with leaves and branches, and featured a simple rock right in the center,” the nature preserve shared on its Facebook page.Murphy began sitting on the rock, nudging it and becoming fiercely protectiv…