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Patelka
1943
Pandion haliaetus
June 24 / mi W Hyampom, #200 ft., Trinity Co., Calif.
One seen flying overhead. It gave a series of high-pitched whistled notes just as it passed over me. I saw only the clear white underpart and the brownish black back. The size seemed correct for an osprey. It flew eastward beyond the town and onto a slope among several tall dead fir trees.
June 26. Osprey seen again today when I was in a part of the flat s. w. y camp where a party Kingbirds were giving repeated alarm calls. Two separate fawns of Bullock Orioles, apparently established in neighboring cotton woods separated by an open space about 200 ft., also called alarmedly. The osprey circled overhead, apparently attracted by the disturbance. When he was within 30 feet or so of the tall partly dead cottonwood occupied by the Kingbirds, one of the latter immediately flew up and attacked him. After the first scuffle, the osprey again circled back and a second scuffle took place.