CRITTER NOTES—
Drum roll please! Local naturalists confirmed a bird I recently saw on the pond was an Osprey. This “fish hawk” (fish are their only prey) stands nearly two feet tall with a wing-span up to 6 feet. The bird was the first of the species I have ever seen around the pond.
A day or so later I was amazed again. This time I watched momma merganser (a small duck that currently is nesting in my wood duck box) catch and eat a bluegill. That was another first for me. Most ducks around here, you see, dive and browse on pond vegetation.
While she captured her dinner a Belted Kingfisher was sitting on the merganser’s nesting box and thumping his recently captured fish dinner into submission.
Drum roll please! Local naturalists confirmed a bird I recently saw on the pond was an Osprey. This “fish hawk” (fish are their only prey) stands nearly two feet tall with a wing-span up to 6 feet. The bird was the first of the species I have ever seen around the pond.
A day or so later I was amazed again. This time I watched momma merganser (a small duck that currently is nesting in my wood duck box) catch and eat a bluegill. That was another first for me. Most ducks around here, you see, dive and browse on pond vegetation.
While she captured her dinner a Belted Kingfisher was sitting on the merganser’s nesting box and thumping his recently captured fish dinner into submission.
I bet the bass were happy the Osprey wasn’t in a fishing mood.
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