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