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By Intent, but not on me …
There was a fledgling osprey screaming, somewhere behind me.
I swung around and found I had a lens full of eagle.
Between me and the sun, this 4-year-old bald eagle flashed past, 
chasing the fledgling osprey and trying to get the smaller bird to drop its catch.  
The osprey hung on, screaming, and dove between me and the tree I was under.  
The eagle suddenly saw me and rolled over on a wing-tip and was gone.
The action was so close I couldn’t get both birds in the photo.

By Peregrine Returned
The peregrine found me and my friend today and gave us a very, very quick look at him as he flashed past.
His patterns were stark against the very grey sky.

 

By It is MY fish …
The 2-year-old bald eagle on the left had been eating on the dead fish. 
Strolled down to get a drink at the water’s edge.
The turkey vulture tried to steal a bite of the fish …..

By Air Traffic Patterns … for Vultures

JL Neighborhood: Here is 3 minutes of chuckles! I do appreciate vultures. Both for their clean-up activities and their sense of timing that often leads to my laughter. This flock of black vultures decided that my friends and I were nothing scary and began to parade past us by land and by air. At about 20 feet away I got to enjoy the air traffic control patterns.  Oh, and the video is in slo mo and was made on my iPhone. Do keep an eye to the right … and, turn up the volume, please!