Eagle Visits Hogback Road, the theif losses!

(taxes done!)

This Tuesday AM, a immature eagle tried to take TM's fish!

Dick Tuttle and I were watching nest #1 at Hogback Road, the male had just came back from fishing and had landed in a tree on the west side of the small island south of the nest. We could barley see him. He came flying out with a eagle on his tail. He headed south above the middle of nest #2 and #3, dodging and climbing to avoid the thief. Within 20 seconds the female from nest #1 headed right at the mugger. The eagle is chasing the Male (TM) and the female is chasing the eagle. (Dick wants to call her Warrior Princess (WP for short)). They all crisscrossed the sky, with the male zigzagging, holding tight onto his breakfast. The male kept climbing till he was just a speck in the sky. The female (WP) catching up and bugging the eagle. She kept after him/her down and across Hogback Road till they both disappeared to the east. The male headed back to the nest and munched on his breakfast. WP was gone about 3 minutes, she went right back to the nest cup.

That was quit a show.

I was going to post photos of some 3 white egrets, a meeting of cormorants, a really fancy duck and the female osprey taking exceptions to geese to close to her nest. Will post later or create a gallery with a link.

Frank Germann