Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:20:36 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Peter Mann Organization: EPL, Inc. Subject: Bald Eagle Behavior MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently witnessed the following: An immature bald eagle spent about 20 minutes divebombing a Great Blue Heron who was fishing our creek. The eagle would circle and come down at the heron with talons spread, the heron would squawk, the eagle would fly off and repeat the perfomance. The heron wasn't hurt - no blood or odd head parts in the water. Nor did the heron stop his walk up the creek - it appeared he saw this as more of a nuisance than a threat. The eagle then landed on a log in the creek, spent about 5 minutes watching the heron, took off for one more attack flight and then flew away. My question is: what sort of behavior was this - was the eagle defending territory, playing, or merely being a surly teenager? Anyone seen this ort of behavior before? Thanks Peter Mann Galena, MD Living and Birding on the Eastern Shore ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================