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Young bald eagle found in LI Sound

Donna Kramer, a manager at My Pet's Vet

Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | Donna Kramer, a manager at My Pet's Vet in Huntington, keeps a close watch on the juvenile bald eagle her husband rescued from Long Island Sound on Monday. (July 3, 2012)

Towboat owner Mitch Kramer has rescued many a boat but what he saved just before the Fourth of July was a venerable symbol of the nation -- stranded in the middle of the Long Island Sound.

It was a bald eagle, a juvenile that Kramer came upon Monday afternoon in waters about 15 miles east of Eatons Neck.

Kramer had been on his way to a Connecticut call and warned the bird to behave if...

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