Uh Oh … Doc Ellen goofed … yes I did … The young eagle in this morning’s video was not a fledgling. I got home and started through my still photography – back to the sequence of the ospreys chasing the eagle into the trees beside me. Quickly realized that the yellow eye and the ragged trailing edge of the wing was all part and parcel of a two year old bald eagle. Sorry about that. Here is the first photo of the sequence this morning. The youngster is hollering about the ospreys.
Jordan Lake: And oh boy what a Natural Minute! I hope you enjoy the full 60 seconds of this Fledgling Bald Eagle that got chased in next to me by a pair of ospreys. He is sitting about 60 feet or so from me. The youngster stayed for more than 10 minutes. I hope you enjoy watching him as much as I did. Take care be safe, stay well.
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Jordan Lake, Haw River 16 minutes after the sun rose … I was tracking a male osprey as he came in over the dam and almost disappeared down into the shadows of the riprap and the sudden glare of the sun. I watched the osprey flare and snatch his fish and then the quiet morning exploded in osprey shrieks and great blue heron gronks. A large light grey shadow was closing in on the osprey. I don’t know if the heron had had an eye on the same fish as the osprey or that the heron took exception to the osprey disturbing his morning fishing. The osprey fled the river with his fish and out over the dam and the heron grumbled his way back to the riprap shoreline.
Jordan Lake does not have a human happy hour, so to speak, because alcohol is not allowed at the lake. However, American Crows define happy hour to be any time that they come across some human food to haul off. The lead crow has either a piece of chicken wing or maybe chicken nugget and it is heading for the clan’s cache tree. The other two crows are part of his family/clan that are escorting him across the open part of the lake in order to keep other clans from stealing that tidbit of human food. It appears that fried chicken in any form or shape and at any hour is appealing both to humans and to crows!
Jordan Lake: Serenity was the word for the lake neighborhood this morning. Take care. Be safe. Stay well!
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