{"id":29128,"date":"2020-07-01T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29128"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T22:20:07","slug":"factious-ospreys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29128","title":{"rendered":"Factious ospreys"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nature is not bucolic. Animals attack one another with tooth, claw, and bill. Other species are seen as either food or competitor — in either case they must be attacked. I have watched animals assault prey. I have seen eagles harass ospreys in an attempt to steal their fish. I have seen ospreys attack herons (who knows why?). Spiders devoir flies. Bears and birds prey on fish. Everything captures and eats those tasty voles. It is just a matter of eat or be eaten. There is nothing personal here, folks: you are merely food.<\/p>\n

While I have watched ospreys fight over access to a nest site early in the season, I had not previously seen them fight over a fish. But, that is what two of them were doing on this occasion.<\/p>\n

A female osprey flies in with her partially eaten fish.
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She lands on a branch to eat it further, but is watched by another osprey that covets the fish.
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The chase begins. This is only one scene from a vigorous back and forth between the two of them.
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In the end she triumphs and settles down to consume her fish.
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