We'd been seeing about 150 double-crested cormorants at dusk in a stand of eastern cottonwoods east of the RR crossing into the Rankin WMA in Cocke county. Yesterday, at the usual time, there were no cormorants, but one bald eagle in a snag at the center of the stand. Another immature eagle was perched on riverbank cottonwood, a couple of hundred feet away. There were also 2 ospreys perched in the area, as there had been when the cormorants roosted there. I don't think the eagles are any more of a threat than the ospreys are to the cormorants, although I've read that eagles will rob fish from ospreys. >> Different interspecies tolerances for different birds; we've also seen an eagle clear out an islet occupied by a flock of white ibises at Ding Darling Refuge in Florida. Maybe an eagle dummy would be more effective as a bird deterrent than those synthetic great horned owls. >> BTW, we heard two live GHOs after sunset at Rankin last night. Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================