It won’t be long before we start to see our province’s official birds returning home! Check out this story
**** Via Osprey of Nova Scotia
OSPREY FUN FACT FRIDAY
When Eagles try and take over an Osprey nest
A feud between an osprey and eagles perched in its nest has sent waves through the Cape Cod town of Orleans. And as the birds of prey scream and whistle toward each other, their hostile message can be heard clearly through the sky.
This nest ain’t big enough for the both of us.
The situation was first noticed in January, wrote Mark Faherty, science coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary and author of CAI’s weekly bird report, when a pair of bald eagles was seen adding sticks to a well-known osprey nest atop a tall pole next to Cedar Pond in Orleans.
The male osprey then returned to his nest March 9 and soon took issue with the squatting eagles, divebombing and screaming at the intruders. But the eagles remained in the nest for several days, coming and going as they pleased.
Faherty also says that if the eagles venture back to the osprey nest, they could be ousted when the female osprey reunites with her mate later in the season.
“My sense is that when the … female comes back and they’ve got a little strength in numbers, that maybe the eagles will give up,” he said. “But it’s a strange situation that has been drawn out for so many days.”
The Eagles may be bigger but the Ospreys take no guff!!!
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