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I paused for some time and watched the fish hawks, or ospreys, of which there were nearly a dozen sailing about above the junction of the two streams, squealing and diving, and occasionally striking a fish on the rifts. I am convinced that the fish hawk sometimes feeds on the wing. I saw him do it on this and on another occasion.
Frank suspected as much, though he really hoped it would not be of the same risky nature as getting the snapshots of the ospreys. In the morning the two who had planned to follow up the stream and learn if it passed through the estate of Aaron Dennison waved their hands to Jerry and Will, after which they started along the shore.
"I was just interested in the clean way the beggar dived after that fish. Flounder, wasn't it?" "Yes, though usually the birds are glad enough to get a moss-bunker. Well, the fish will soon be a dead one, I suppose." "Yes, food for the little ospreys, I imagine. Well, it's a good death to die serving some useful purpose, even if it's only to be eaten. Gad!
But fortalices of this description are found occupying, like ospreys' nests, projecting rocks, or promontories, in many parts of the eastern coast of Scotland, and the position of Fast Castle seems certainly to resemble that of Wolf's Crag as much as any other, while its vicinity to the mountain ridge of Lammermoor renders the assimilation a probable one.
To catch fish, therefore, they must be taught from the first day they leave the nest. And it is a fascinating experience for any man to watch the way they go about it. The young ospreys flew heavily in short irregular circles, scanning the water with their inexperienced eyes for their first strike.
Among the few emblems of the vanishing race, this persistent weir-taking toll of the fish month after month, year after Year, for the benefit of successive generations of eagles and ospreys, appeals vividly to the imagination.
And then its retreat, sailing so steadily away, is a kind of advance. I have by me one of a pair of ospreys, which have for some years fished in this vicinity, shot by a neighboring pond, measuring more than two feet in length, and six in the stretch of its wings.
Did he want to fish there were such exquisite little gaily-coloured fish there, that are so stupid and greedy they grab at every bait would he not shoot ospreys as well? She positively worried him. But he always gave her an evasive reply; he did not want to. "I'm really too tired to-day." Then she sent for the Italian doctor. But Wolfgang was angry: what did he want with that quack?
And I'm glad to know our chum hasn't gone and broken a leg; for besides the pain to him it would upset all our fine plans for a good time up here." Will was sitting astride the lowermost limb of an enormous tree standing about forty or fifty feet to the west of the one in which the nest of the ospreys could be plainly seen, close to the top. Will grinned sheepishly as his chums came underneath.
We shall not answer for the truthfulness of this anecdote, although there is nothing improbable about it; for certain it is that these birds defend their nests with courage and fury, and we know of more than one instance of persons being severely wounded who made the attempt to rob them. The ospreys, as already stated, feed exclusively on fish.
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