My mother was born in Whyalla. While I was growing up she would tell me about a woman who was heavily pregnant in a farm just out of town. One day she was out on the property when she saw a wedge-tailed eagle caught in some fence wire.
The woman tried to help the eagle, but whilst she was helping it to untangle itself, the bird's talon scratched her on the belly. The woman wasn't harmed, and the eagle flew off.
The woman forgot about the incident until the baby was born, when she saw on the child's side - where the eagle's scratch would have been - the most perfect eagle-shaped birthmark, that the girl was to have for life.
Andy Best
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