Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:35:53 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sherry Peruzzi Subject: Re: Bald Eagle Behavior MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Not on the part of an eagle, but last year we watched a flock of crows mobbing a GBHE with all the intensity they would have put into mobbing a raptor, pecking as they dived at it over and over, yelling angrily, and chasing it further and further up the stream. We wondered the same thing about the crows -- were they playing, surly teenagers, or what? Sherry Peruzzi Columbia, Howard County bookworms@home.com Peter Mann wrote: > 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 > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================