The bald eagle is a national symbol. Rebelling against taxes is a national tradition. So it was fitting that one bald eagle in Virginia Beach, Virginia, inaugurated tax season by crashing into the window of a tax preparation office, smashing a three-foot hole in the glass, and then, having suffered no apparent injuries, flying back out the window.

“I was on the phone with a friend and saw it on the inside ledge,” Harry Patterson Jr., who works nearby, said of the incident in December. “I figured it was a stuffed animal. Then, it started to move. I couldn’t believe there was a bald eagle in there, and I couldn’t believe what I was saying to myself.”