What a story, Scott! That must have been an impressive bird.
I hadn’t seen any bird roll in flight until a few months ago when I saw a kite
or buzzard being harried by crows. The crows were diving at the bird of prey
which was rolling to evade the attacks. Perhaps there were nests close by . . .
Chris
> On 21 Apr 20, at 23:18, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I was carrying it on its back, Jim, cradled in both hands. Best way I can
> describe its abrupt departure was as a snap-roll to full wing extension,
> followed by a good, hard, down-sweep to gain speed and altitude. It was
> rather ironic that it ended up roosting on the exact roof I had intended to
> place it, where, after another ten minutes or so, it flew off.
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:54 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> An osprey would be quite a handful when it suddenly woke up. Glad you
>> both parted friends.
>>
>> On 4/21/20 4:48 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
>>> A collision with a neighbor's window once led to me carrying a full-grown
>>> osprey, knocked senseless, out of the small dirt street in front of our
>>> house. I intended to place it up on a shed roof just a couple of houses
>>> away, out of reach of neighborhood dogs. Osprey are much larger than you
>>> might think when photographing or observing from a distance, and their
>>> talons are impressive. It's a toss-up which of us was more startled when
>> it
>>> came to before I'd gotten there. Luckily, neither of us was injured in
>> the
>>> resulting emergency evacuation made by the bird.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 9:47 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A truly beautiful bird! You captured very nice feather details.
>>>>
>>>> Doug Herr, "The Bird Man of Sacramento", would have been proud to claim
>>>> that one.
>>>>
>>>> On 4/19/20 11:39 PM, Moose wrote:
>>>>> On 4/18/2020 8:05 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>>> I've had a few stunned birds fall on my patio, after striking the
>>>>>> picture window. This window is near a corner in an L-shaped house.
>>>>>> A few years ago, an enterprising sharp-shinned hawk figured out that,
>>>>>> if he hid in bushes along the fence, and flew toward the feeders when
>>>>>> birds were there, they would fly into the window trying to escape,
>>>>>> and he would scoop one up and be gone. I finally had to let the
>>>>>> feeders sit empty for a month before he moved on somewhere else.
>>>>> Why do we penalize the clever ones? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> We had the reverse situation. Where we have our feeders is narrow for
>>>>> maneuvering by sparrow hawks. A Coopers Hawk crashed into a window
>>>>> there with a mighty thud. We assume it was trying to catch a bird from
>>>>> the feeders and mistook a reflection for a bird.
>>>>>
>>>>> It was able to fly to a nearby branch, then sat there for a while,
>>>>> getting it's bearing again. Long enough for me to run for camera and
>>>>> take some photos. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22581>
>>>>>
>>>>> A print hangs on a wall here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Opportunity Knocks Moose
>>>>>
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>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>
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