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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!

By Great Horned Owl!!!
Oh, wow.  Oh, woowee.  Or is that who, whoo, whooo …..
My second favorite place to go birding is Lake Mattamuskeet.
I did a quick day trip yesterday – and got a delightful surprise!
My first ever great horned owl.  
She and I spent spent some 35 minutes watching each other.
Eventually  she walked toward the trunk and her camouflage took over and she disappeared.

By JL Raptors all over the lake!
Raptors all over the Lake!
 
This pair of adult eagles spent several minutes circling each other before straightening out and together heading west.
 
 
The fledgling osprey on the left has a fish.  The fledgling bald eagle on the right wants it!  The osprey held onto his meal.
 
 
A female fledgling very proud of her fish.  She caught it, went to a perch and removed its head before flying off to find a safer place to eat.
 
 
Some time later I realized I was looking at a now well-fed female juvenile osprey!