An injured bald eagle is on the mend after it was discovered in the District on July 4th weekend.

After receiving reports of an injured bald eagle in Southeast D.C. on Saturday afternoon, Humane Rescue Alliance found a bird “demonstrating labored breathing, lethargy, and was unable to fly,” per the group’s Facebook. They captured the eagle, found in some bushes, and took it to City Wildlife for treatment and recovery.

The bird “came in to us soaking wet,” says Paula Goldberg, the executive director of City Wildlife. She says that right now, the working hypothesis is that the eagle got caught in Saturday’s intense rainstorm and was forced to the ground.

“One of the most plausible explanations is that the bird was so wet it couldn’t lift off the ground,” says Goldberg.

The eagle is currently in stable condition. “At intake, the bird had no gross injuries,” Goldberg says. But City Wildlife is “cautious about amount of stress a physical exam incurs on animals, because that stress can kill them.”

Still, veterinarians determined that the bird’s lead level was low, crossing lead poisoning off a list of potential diagnoses. The eagle spent Sunday resting in its kennel and ate, which Goldberg says is a “good sign.”

If a previous rescued animal, Symba the 35-pound cat, was a metaphor for our tenuous relationship with physical fitness, we leave it to you to determine what exactly the national mascot’s inability to fly means.

Metaphor or not, the most famous eagles in D.C. remain Mr. President and The First Lady, the birds whose lives in a Tulip Poplar tree at the National Arboretum are broadcast through the DC Eagle Cam.

Update: The eagle recovered and was returned to the wild on July 13 by Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research.