Sky Dance
(or Fish Display)
(or Fish Display)
US Birds
- Water Birds
- Upland Game Birds
- Pigeons and Doves
- Cuckoos
- Nightjars, Swifts, and Hummingbirds
- New World Vultures
- Hawks, Eagles, Kites and allies
- Owls
- Kingfishers
- Woodpeckers
- Falcons-Caracaras
- Passerines
- Tyrant Flycatchers
- Vireos
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies*
- Chickadees and Titmice*
- Swallows*
- Kinglets*
- Nuthatches*
- Treecreepers*
- Gnatcatchers*
- Wrens*
- Starlings*
- Mimids*
- Thrushes and Bluebirds*
- Waxwings*
- Old World Sparrows*
- Finches*
- New World Sparrows and allies*
- Blackbirds and Orioles*
- New World Warblers*
- Cardinals and Allies*
2021-09-24
We pulled up to the parking lot along a lake and noticed two Osprey flying in the area. One dove into the water and flew off with a fish in its talons. For the next 10 minutes or so we watched a Sky Dance between the two birds, swooping around each other, soaring high and then descending again. They would approach each other and then swoop away, sometimes one bird doing an inverted pirouette like a crazed contortionist. Quite a sight. If you look closely at the bird on the left you will see the unwilling fish grasped in the talons.