[bsg] NO LEAST TERNS 15 Aug
- From: Hubert Hervey <hawkeyehub1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bird alert <bsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
BSG Members,
Thought you would enjoy this sighting at Mile Marker 101, in Rapides Parish,
north of Fort Buhlow near Alexandria, since there were no terns to report.
We were watching an Osprey laboring along with a fairly large fish which
appeared silvery so asian carp is a probability. They are now all the way up
to Pool 3. Suddenly a hawk swooped into view, challenging the Osprey. This
little guy was no larger than one Osprey wing and the fish would have taken the
hawk to the ground. I was surprised to discover that an adult Broad-winged
Hawk was the challenger, and enjoyed several minutes of dispute over the air
space over the Red River. The Osprey swerved, climbed and did all in its power
to hang on to the fish as the Broad-winged harassed it. At one point a Turkey
Vulture appeared in the same binocular field, just watching out of curiosity,
or maybe hoping the Osprey would drop the fish, in what would have been a
strange case of cooperative feeding from Osprey, via Broad-winged to vulture.
Hubert
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