While attempting to photograph the nesting osprey at the Visitor Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge earlier this week, I witnessed a Baltimore Oriole ATTACK one of the Osprey. The Osprey had landed in a snag after a low flight over the water at Cash Lake. Immediately a Baltimore Oriole came charging from a nearby white oak and dive bombed (a la mockingbird). It proceded to chase the osprey all the way back to the osprey platform in the middle of the lake. Then the oriole continued to patrol the shoreline for a few minutes. What a sight...this little bird, flashing black and orange, chasing this large bird!!

Has anyone observed such aggressive behavior from a BAOR?

Steve Noyes
Volunteer Naturalist
Patuxent Reseach Refuge
Laurel MD


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