<div dir="ltr">Just recalled a more amazing story. Heard this on OBOL a few years back.<div>A Peregrine was harassing a Bald Eagle at Yaquina Bay, Newport OR. Repeatedly dive-bombing an eagle just cruising through. Flew back up, dove again. Feisty. </div><div>After a few such passes, the Eagle got fed up (literally) On the next pass the Eagle simply flipped upside down, grabbing the peregrine. Lunch had been served. (Actually lunch had _been_ the server!)</div><div>Bob OBrien Portland</div><div>PS Honest, I'm no making this stuff up.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 6:40 PM Alan Roedell <<a href="mailto:alanroedell@gmail.com" target="_blank">alanroedell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Wow! Right in front of you. You had a front row seat. Amazing!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 5:38 PM Robert O'Brien <<a href="mailto:baro@pdx.edu" target="_blank">baro@pdx.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Cool indeed</div>Decades ago, at the Nehalem Sewage ponds.over at the coast from Portland, as I was driving out I noticed a pair of birds coming 500 yards off to my left. It was a Peregrine after a Rock Pigeon. Rock Pigeons can fly pretty fast and as I slowed down, my car and the pair appeared to be on a collision course. Sure enough, just as I came to a stop, right in front of my windshield, the Peregrine was overtaking the Pigeon & at that point also turned upside down, to capture the pigeon from below. But my car intervened and disrupted the capture at the last second. The peregrine then veered off and disappeared. The Pigeon, however, continued on, crashing at 60+mph into the large Blackberry Hedge lining the road. I got out and photographed the pigeon down inside the tangle. It wasn't coming out for anything.<div>Bob OBrien Portland</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 2:55 PM Jack Stephens <<a href="mailto:jstephens62@comcast.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jstephens62@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Earlier this winter I was up at the East 90 on the Samish Flats photographing Short-eared Owls. As often happens, they were skirmishing with the Northern Harriers there that occupy a similar ecological niche. These two birds spared briefly before flying off in opposite directions. Only when I reviewed the images later did I realize that the harrier had flipped completely upside down in flight, to meet the attacking owl with her talons. I thought this was too cool to not share. <div><br></div><div><a href="https://jackstephens.zenfolio.com/p763235708/e57c27b2e" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jackstephens.zenfolio.com/p763235708/e57c27b2e</a></div><div><br></div><div>Jack Stephens</div><div>Edmonds, WA </div></div>
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