Birds

I've seen a bald eagle courtship flight just north of Tampa while driving along the interstate. Unfortunately I couldn't stop and view them. In the video the eagles lock talons and free fall but disengage just before hitting the ground.

" Bald eagle courtship involves elaborate, spectacular calls and flight displays. The flight includes swoops, chases, and cartwheels, in which they fly high, lock talons, and free fall, separating just before hitting the ground."

https://youtu.be/638jHwMrGdE

Here are some incredible video clips of osprey catching fish. It makes one wonder how they could get underwater shots of a flounder, or some kind of flat fish, at the moment it's caught by the osprey.

https://youtu.be/nA3LtXnNIto

Bald eagles are as good at stealing fish from osprey as the osprey are at catching them. Here is a great coincidence: boy kicks a field goal almost at the precise time that a bald eagle steals a fish from an osprey.

https://youtu.be/gvWUv1N45XE

Bald Eagle steals fish from great blue heron.

https://youtu.be/wnoV7h59zWA

Another klepto bald eagle stealing a catfish from a great blue heron.

https://youtu.be/qBg91LuN95M

Teaching a pelican to fish.

https://youtu.be/zwI9omOWH9k

Pelican Feeding Frenzy

https://youtu.be/krrQjPZOCoY

Let me know if this works because I can't get it to work on mine.

I'm not sure teaching a pelican to bait cast is a productive use of a man's time.

It's really thrilling to watch Pelicans fish. They dive straight down into the water, and their pouch fills up with about a gallon of water and, hopefully, fish. Then they surface and strain out the fish as they're pushing the water out of their pouch.

I never saw one catch a fish, but I did see one immediately thereafter. It looked like he(?) was having a heck of a time getting it lined up and ready to swallow. Those birds must have one heck of a stomach to stand up to a whole, and still kicking fish.

Very good.

SUNBIRD

An unusual flower on a Singaporean tree, attracts a young Brown Throated Sunbird which, after foraging, performs gravity defying feats... by Ade Hall

Hand feeding chickadees and nuthatches.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7CPwQldV8gk

Hummingbird pool party

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=McwLb8lGgCg

Hand-feeding wild chickadees and nuthatches.

https://youtu.be/7CPwQldV8gk

Spring is just around the corner, in Dallas at least. It seems that every spring I see fledgling birds that have fallen out of the nest onto the ground.
It's an easy matter to get a ladder and put the bird back on the highest Branch you can reach. There is common folklore that says you shouldn't touch the bird with your bare hands because then the mother will reject it because they detect your odor. This is not true. Birds have a very poor sense of smell, and they couldn't detect you're odor in the first place. The important thing is to get the bird off the ground so it will be relatively safe from killer cats.

And killer dogs. My dog got a blue jay last season.