Two more bald eagles are now soaring in the skies above Lake Jackson.

The eaglets were rescued and re-habbed after falling from their nests and this week, folks gasped and grinned as they flew up and away into the wild blue.

"It's part of America right there ... the symbol ... going back into the wild. It was great!" said Stephen Pinkosky.

"I think they joined their peers and they're at home now," Jaime Hatcher said.

It's been an incredible journey. These baby bald eagles fell from their respective nests last spring, one in Piney Z, the other right here on the banks of Lake Jackson.

The male eagle was dehydrated and emactiated, weighing just four pounds, when Bob and Irene Wolfe spotted him in their backyard.

"We saw him walking instead of flying across the whole lawn and then he just hopped on the bench and never did move after that," Irene Wolfe said.

"He didn't move very much so we called St. Francis and they were quick to respond and she came out and they did a great job," Bob Wolfe said.

Folks at St. Francis Wildlife nursed the baby bald eagle back to health and then he and the female eagle were sent to the Wildlife Sanctuary of Northwest Florida in Pensacola to learn how to hunt and to fly. Thursday they were brought back home.

"He didn't rest at all. He did not sleep. He was a little anxious. He got very eager when we got close which is very interesting," Karen Beach said after riding with the eagle on her lap for three hours.

The eagles wore hoods over their eyes and volunteers held tight to their talons as they made the trip. The eagles were greeted by half the neighborhood and even a pair of bald eagles perched in trees nearby seemed to be waiting and watching.

"They may fly this way, that way, either way don't go anywhere. Just wait and let them figure it out," Dorothy Kaufmann warned bystanders just moments before the release. Kaufmann is with the Wildlife Sanctuary of Northwest Florida.

"It was just the most amazing experience I've ever had ... just watching him fly into freedom," said Sandy Beck with St. Francis Wildlife. Beck originally rescued the male eagle from this Lake Jackson yard and was allowed to release the bird.