Location: Lions Pond, across the lower dam at Lake Lowell. (Deer Flat NWR)

This morning I watched a Red-shouldered Hawk dive at an adult Black-crowned Night Heron. The screeching heron flew away with the hawk chasing it. A Red-tailed Hawk joined the melee and dove at the Cooper’s Hawk.

After a few minutes the Red-shouldered Hawk flew at the screeching heron again. This time the heron flew in to a shrub and the Hawk landed on a downed tree branch and spent several minutes looking for the heron.

But all the while there was a young Black-crowned Night Heron and several ducks below the Hawk, just a few feet away.

Gotta love Nature’s drama.

Thanks Bryce Robinson for correcting my original identification. 😊

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

thx for reporting dude =)
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From: “Jay Carlisle carlislejay@yahoo.com [ible]”
To: “IBLE”
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 9:07:01 AM
Subject: [IBLE] Sabine’s @ CJ Strike

Heidi and I headed to CJ Strike with some of Intermountain Bird Observatory’s Lucky Peak crew yesterday
afternoon and were rewarded by 4 immature Sabine’s Gulls seen from the Cottonwood boat dock – including this one that flew by pretty close (thanks Matthew Danihel for the pic). There were also quite a few Common Terns (30+ between Cottonwood and the upper end of Jack’s Creek) and 2 distant birds that looked good for adult Arctic Terns – I just couldn’t pull the trigger without a better view \uD83D\uDE01

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Heidi and I headed to CJ Strike with some of Intermountain Bird Observatory’s Lucky Peak crew yesterday
afternoon and were rewarded by 4 immature Sabine’s Gulls seen from the Cottonwood boat dock – including this one that flew by pretty close (thanks Matthew Danihel for the pic).  There were also quite a few Common Terns (30+ between Cottonwood and the upper end of Jack’s Creek) and 2 distant birds that looked good for adult Arctic Terns – I just couldn’t pull the trigger without a better view 😁

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