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Saturday Fishing
Southern MD
11/04/07
Submitted By: Mark Burchick

While fishing today, we shared the water resources with a hungry osprey. Perching from trees along the banks he worked the water for an hour plus. He would hover and dive, and in the end, did no better than Mark and I. He did carry on with the chirping and this is what he sounded like:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/audio/Osprey.html

He came quite close to the boat, probably seeing fish that we could not. Osprey usually leave for their wintering grounds in central and south America in the late summer (mid September), so I assume that this bird was snacking while in migration? Maybe the extraordinarily warm weather has kept some of the Bay osprey around longer than usual? The osprey or fish hawk are fish-eating specialists, with live fish accounting for over 90% of their diet!
Walking along a trail we saw several Aralia spinosa (Devils Walking-Stick, appropriate for Halloween), bowing down with the weight of heavy fruit clusters. The native shrub is loaded with spines on the bark (like a cartoon bull dog collar), hence the common name for the plant. The autumn mass of berries are toxic to human but are a minor food source for birds.

Mark Burchick

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