Okay, so the title is a play on something you might hear in an old western movie, but one thing I've learned in my years of photographing and watching birds is that the two fish eating North American raptors don't exactly get along. Probably has something to do with the larger of the them regularly pirating fish from its smaller cousin (I'm sure that the events I witnessed yesterday also had something to do with the fact there were also 3 recently fledged "locals" in the area, too).
Yesterday I was on an evening program shift, which meant that I did not have to work until the early afternoon, and so used the free morning to take the Ol' Girl over to the reservoir for a swim. As I was backing in to get parked I noticed a rather large white-headed bird perched up in a pine tree. I was surprised, to say the least, since last year I didn't my first Bald Eagle in the area until November. And just as I was getting parked an Osprey came charging toward the eagle. As luck would have it, I happened to have my video camera along for the ride. Below you'll find some of the video I took of the events (unfortunately the day was rather gray except for a few brief moments), the next to last clip is there in real time, followed by repeat in slow motion. The sequence is a little over 1 min. 30 secs. and about 10 megabytes. The audio volume is a little low but you can hear them screaming at each other. Enjoy!
Kevin, you did a great job capturing the interaction between those two. Thanks for sharing it.
That is so awesome!!!