The majestic bald eagle is left dazed but unharmed after flying into and shattering a patio window

A bald eagle flew through the patio window of a California home with enough speed to break the glass — and stood there, dazed but unharmed.

The four- to five-year-old bird was believed to be hunting clumsily when it crash-landed in the backyard of a Palo Alto home, animal control officials said.

Palo Alto Animal Control received a call late last month from a stunned homeowner saying an eagle had crashed into their home.

The animal control officers and emergency room were also in disbelief, initially thinking it was actually a smaller and more common bird, such as an owl or a hawk.

The four- to five-year-old bird was believed to have been chasing awkwardly when it crash-landed

The smashed patio window in the yard of the San Francisco home

“I think it’s probably a guess that it was actually a bald eagle, but it definitely was,” says Animal Control Officer Cody Macartney told local channel KRON4.

“When I saw it there, it was a once in a career thing. I’ve never been this close to a bald eagle before,” he said. “The first thing I noticed was the size of his claws and his feet.”

Macartney and his partner, Officer Kadri Corrollo, examined the eagle and noted no injuries, their office said in a statement. Facebook message.

The resident’s outside window was shattered, but the inside window was intact. Our best guess is that the eagle was hunting a smaller bird and was simply flying too low for its own good,” the post read.

“The eagle also appeared to be partially covered in Baylands mud, so we could tell it wasn’t having its best day.”

Despite being prepared with a net to catch the eagle, the pair decided instead to see if it could fly off on its own.

“The eagle heard me coming and just took off, landing on what I thought was a barbeque, but turned out to be a fountain in the yard that was covered,” Macartney told KRON4.

“It stood there majestically for a while. I got closer and it said ‘no’ and just climbed the fence and flew away.’

Officers Cody Macartney (left) and Kadri Corrollo (right) examined the eagle and noted no injuries, their office said in a Facebook post

The eagle initially took flight and landed on a covered fountain in the garden

Despite being nearly extinct about 50 years ago, bald eagles have made a miraculous comeback in recent decades.

There is sparse data on the early populations of bald eagles in the Bay Area.

An atlas shows that a 1915 nest south of San Francisco was the last evidence of local nesting until the species’ current recovery.

By the mid-1960s, there were fewer than 30 breeding pairs of bald eagles left in California—and they were all in the northern third of the state.

Macartney described his encounter with the bird last month as unexpected.

“Something new every day, we are a long way from being the dog catcher everyone thinks we are,” he told KRON4.

“You expect everything in this job.”