Went to Conowingo Dam to see what all the fuss is about. Very neat place. Not a lot of Eagle action, even though I counted over 230 eagles in the rocks, but my wife and I started following this Peregrine Falcon that was aggressively chasing other birds away from its nest.
Please excuse the bad mid-day light.
Thanks everyone.
The peregrine apparently has a nest in the northernmost of the two towers across from fisherman's park, on there top level.
Earlier we saw her chase a Red-tailed Hawk, so we started paying attention. After the eagle it also battled a Black Vulture. I got some neat photos of that battle, but they were a big crop, at about the same distance as the towers. The falcon was doing a lot of acrobatics during that fight!
I have seen a falcon chase off an eagle before, but there wasn't an attack.
Two days ago, we saw a pair of falcons do a warning fly by a great horned owl and two of it's young.
I was so busy watching, I didn't take any photos.
kimknapp wrote:
Thanks everyone.
The peregrine apparently has a nest in the northernmost of the two towers across from fisherman's park, on there top level.
Earlier we saw her chase a Red-tailed Hawk, so we started paying attention. After the eagle it also battled a Black Vulture. I got some neat photos of that battle, but they were a big crop, at about the same distance as the towers. The falcon was doing a lot of acrobatics during that fight!
That's a pretty b-llsey peregrine nesting amongst hundreds of eagles. Never would have expected that, but it's pure guts.
Superb sequence. I guess that made the trip worthwhile.
A falcon killed an eagle that got too close to it's nest in New Jersey a couple of years ago. The falcon dove at full speed and hit the eagle in the neck and the eagle went limp and fell into the Hudson River.
