Let's Hear it For Over-Achievers

This story is so full of wonderful visual images: an eagle with aspirations that exceed his talons' strength and wing lifting capacity. Sadly he didn't live to tell his grand-eagles about the day he scored a major trophy, but I love that he tried.

And enjoy another tale with a better ending, so far. Shot, refrigerated, and revived during surgery...that's one tough duck.

Here's to all the over-achievers, whether winged or finned or furred or human. You've got to love 'em.