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Updated: May 25, 2025
Here was the osprey's parasite, the bald eagle, for which I had been on the watch. Meantime, the hawk too had disappeared. I did not see it fall, and knew nothing of the eagle's presence until he fluttered to the beach. Some days later, I saw the big thief emblem of American liberty play his sharp game to the finish. I was crossing the bridge, and by accident turned and looked upward.
The voices of both are alike in their dissonance though different in quality and tone, and the smaller bird is invariably the aggressor. This is how they fight, or rather engage in a vulgar brawl which has in it a smack of tragedy. The osprey, with steady beat of outstretched wing, flies "squaking" from its agile enemy, who endeavours to alight on the osprey's back.
Other birds, as the purple grakles, often build among the sticks of the osprey's nest, and rear their young without being meddled with by this generous bird. This is an important point of difference between the osprey and other kinds of hawks; and there is a peculiarity of structure about the feet and legs of the osprey, that points to the nature of his food and his mode of procuring it.
I see by the papers this morning that you won the Cup, and also that the Osprey's bobstay burst at the right time, and that a great sensation had been caused by the discovery that there had been foul play. "Why, what is the matter with you? You look as black as a thundercloud." "And no wonder. I won the race, but I have lost the girl." "The deuce you have.
His pen was made from an osprey's feather, hundreds of which were strewn about the cliffs, and some of these he had already secured and dried. Placing his tin baler before him, on which he had scratched his notes, he drew a map of the island. "What shall we call it?" said he. Helen paused, and then replied, "Call it 'GODSEND' Island." "So I will," he said, and wrote it down.
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