an osprey being mobbed by a pair of WHAT!?!?!? (1 Viewer)

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scuba0095

Well-known member

• Jun 16, 2009

• #1

Yesterday at the lake i saw an osprey being mobbed by what looked like a pair of ducks!

By the way they were flying straight and the out streached necks and size of a mallard but i could never see a pair of mallards trying to mob something like this!

I am in kingston ontario anyone know what other species of duck would do this? they were the size of a mallard so no way was it a common loon!

 

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charlierocky

Well-known member

• Jun 16, 2009

• #2

I could only assume that the ducks have a nest nearby with chicks. This offten prompts the most unsual scenes with birds in deffence of their young.

 

Cosworthlady

Well-known member

• Jun 16, 2009

• #3

I agree with Charlie. I have seen a female duck chase off a dog which must have been near its nest.

 

Steve Dudley

aka The Toadsnatcher

• Jun 16, 2009

• #4

I once saw a pair of Avocets rather bizzarely chasing swifts feeding over their nest scrape! Not thats territorial for you!

 

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charlierocky

Well-known member

• Jun 16, 2009

• #5

Last year I witnessed a Mistle thrush chase off a Sparrow hawk which had just killed a pigeon but dropped it in a pond.

 

kawwauser

Well-known member

• Jun 18, 2009

• #6

i remember watching a wildlife program a few years ago filming divers in scotland,an army jet flew over and the divers went beserk,1 adult chased the jet albeit 700 hundred feet below it over the entire water area

 

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bradinho

Well-known member

• Jun 18, 2009

• #7

An osprey that turned up this year at our reserve was constantly mobbed by families of shelduck - amazing scenes!

 

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longbow

Well-known member

• Jun 20, 2009

• #8

I've twice been attacked by mother grouse. It quite chokes me up.

 

Oakum

Member

• Jun 21, 2009

• #9

F.Y.I and exellent osprey slideshow for everyone!

Now this is a real fisher of the wetlands and waterways

http://www.miguellasa.com/photos/sspopup.mg?AlbumID=1001578

Enjoy!:eek!:

Oakum

 

Last edited: Jun 21, 2009