And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, July 30, 2022
An Osprey with what looks to be a large bass just flew into the bull pine behind the house, and he's tearing it apart and eating it.
I grew up in Monroe and McMinn Counties and never noticed any ospreys until I moved to Florida, where they’re common as dirt. Then, I went back home to Tennessee and noticed them everywhere. Turns out, I was just young and ignorant.
I used to work at the Trinity River Salmon & Steelhead Fish Hatchery, west of Redding (in Lewiston CA). The hatchery doubled as a bird cafeteria. Those osprey are really impressive the way they dive bomb a pond of fish.
I saw a red tailed hawk do the same thing with a squirrel just a couple of weeks ago. The squirrel's tail was waving behind the hawk as it flew by. They peck the eyes out first.
Nice fish! Ya gotta love wildlife action in your own backyard.
ReplyDeleteIf you have or are near a pond and build an Osprey nest platform they will come.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.tn.gov/twra/wildlife/woodworking-for-wildlife/osprey-nest-platform.html
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/documents/birds/nest-boxes/osprey-nest-platform-plan.pdf
I'm on Watts Bar, they're all over, expanding into the trees and up the shoreline, we see them circling overhead all the time.
DeleteI grew up in Monroe and McMinn Counties and never noticed any ospreys until I moved to Florida, where they’re common as dirt. Then, I went back home to Tennessee and noticed them everywhere. Turns out, I was just young and ignorant.
DeleteFresh fish! Fresh fish! Fresh fish! - Shawshank Redemption
ReplyDeleteI used to work at the Trinity River Salmon & Steelhead Fish Hatchery, west of Redding (in Lewiston CA). The hatchery doubled as a bird cafeteria. Those osprey are really impressive the way they dive bomb a pond of fish.
ReplyDeleteDid you happen to know a F&G guy named Zuppo?
DeleteI saw a red tailed hawk do the same thing with a squirrel just a couple of weeks ago. The squirrel's tail was waving behind the hawk as it flew by. They peck the eyes out first.
ReplyDeleteThey must have learned that from Democrats.
DeleteI saw a very large red-tail doing chowing down on a small crow a couple weeks ago.
DeleteA good nourishing breakfast!
ReplyDeleteWhat a way to go
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