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Message: [QUOTE="gardengimp, post: 179222, member: 4637"] The latest adventures in the 'nature happening on your front stoop' series ..... Spotted a very large raccoon on the side of the road a few days ago, got caught by traffic. Sucks to be you I thought, but glad you can't bother my fish any more. [I]But wait, one goes and a new one comes along to take it's place.[/I] Had the dogs out for a last pottie break before work this morning, i heard an unusual bird call. Looked up and there is this huge what looks just like an osprey circling overhead around my house. Gad zucks .... I looked up [URL="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/osprey/id"]Osprey[/URL], and sure enough the bird call I heard is definitely osprey. They really are beautiful birds to [URL="http://www.arkive.org/osprey/pandion-haliaetus/video-00.html"]watch fishing in the wild[/URL], but I would have never thought to see one over my heavily treed suburban house. Last Friday mid-day I came home and found my impatiens island upside down in the pond. Now I'm thinking perhaps the osprey is to blame. I honestly can't imagine the havoc such a big bird would wreck in my small pond, but now I'm wondering if the fish hiding on the bottom is just as much another unwanted bird visitor as it is this horrid heat we've been having. I still can not figure out why an Osprey would be interested in my little patch of water when there are so many large natural bodies of fish stocked waters within less than a mile of my itsy-bitsy tree canopy covered pond. Mr or Mz Osprey, please go over-yonder and hang out by the lake. You will like it much better over there. My fish and I thank you kindly for leaving. [/QUOTE]

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