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Harrison Bay State Park eagle steals show at Tennessee panel hearing

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Arkansas-Tennessee Live Blog

NASHVILLE – A bald eagle at work in its nest at Harrison Bay State Park in Chattanooga temporarily stole the show Wednesday at a legislative oversight hearing Wednesday.

State Environment and Conservation Commissioner Robert Martineau piped in a feed of a live webcam set up earlier this month to observe a pair of bald eagles, a male and female, that have set up residence in a tree for the second straight second year at the park.

“I’m going to turn it over to Brock (deputy commissioner Brock Hill) unless the eagle upstages us,” Martineau told Senate Environment, Conservation and Tourism Committee members.

Too late, said committee Chairman Steve Southerland, R-Morristown, as he looked at his colleagues: “I think it has.”