And then the fighting started. This nest must be considered prime real estate for the osprey. Last year I witnessed some fighting over it, yesterday I found a pair chilling peacefully and minding their own business. Other birds were flying back and forth working in earnest on repairing damaged nests. The pair were suddenly very much on edge. I was just getting my first good workout with tracking using the 100-500 + 1.4x on the R5, picked up the bird on the right of the image and followed him in. I thought he was just going to land somewhere, and BAM!!!
I didn't anticipate this, and was kind of blown away when I realized what just happened. The defender won this round, he scored the only points of the battle (see pic #3) - "don't start none, won't be none".
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