But above all it looked very big, even perched high on the tower. Bowers wanted reassurance. They had first searched through the hawks, she said, and decided it had to be an osprey. I told her she was almost certainly right in her identification. Educational detour Ospreys are not unusual here in winter.
Individuals appear in the Flour Bluff area every year.
Some of them select a telephone pole above a backyard where the family dog resides. This bird, I am happy to tell them, lives almost exclusively on fish, although an occasional small bird or rodent is taken. In a late afternoon birding look-about we went to check the bird seen by Bowers. At first I overshot and passed the South Fork subdivision. To turn around, I went into a little street on the north side of the road and there, on a pole, was a huge bird.