Birder: Osprey takes heron down

WILDLIFE WATCHING — Somebody may have learned a lesson in this critter encounter described by Catherine Temple, an avid birder from Clarkston:

I watched an interesting interaction this morning between an osprey and great blue heron. The osprey was dive bombing and chasing the heron all over the sky until it finally knocked it down in deep water in a pond. I’m assuming the heron had taken or attempted to take a baby from the osprey nest or perhaps just got too close. I have seen heron take prairie dogs so a baby osprey would probably not be a problem except when the parents get mad. I don’t think I’d want a ticked off osprey coming after me!