Subject: FW: Heron attack by Eagle (fwd)
Date: Aug 20 23:16:31 2003
From: Daniel Bastaja - dan at calivita.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Tirhi [mailto:tirhimjt at dfw.wa.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:40 PM
To: dan at calivita.com
Subject: Re: Heron attack by Eagle (fwd)

Mr. Bastaja,
Thank you for sending along the information regarding the eagle attack
of great blue heron. Ross Vessland (B.C.) and I are both collecting
such attack information in hopes of publishing our findings in
appropriate journals/bulletins. We will hopefully assess whether this
occurrence is on the rise. I will add your report to that file. Thank
you and please forward any future reports you obtain.



Michelle Tirhi
Urban Biologist
Washington Dept. Fish and Wildlife
25644 44th Ave S.
Kent, WA 98032
253-813-8906
tirhimjt at dfw.wa.gov

>>> Kelly Mcallister <mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov> 08/11/03 11:50AM >>>
Great Blue Heron Study Group wanted.

Kelly McAllister
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Olympia, Washington
Reply to: mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:06:48 +0200
From: Daniel Bastaja < dan at calivita.com >
To: Vanbirds < bcvanbirds at yahoogroups.com >, Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu >
Subject: Heron attack by Eagle

Hi. This is Daniel Bastaja. There is a Great Blue Heron study group
somewhere on the coast that is documenting Bald Eagle attacks on Great
Blue Herons. I saw this item on the West Kootenay, B.C. chat group and
thought they might be interested in it..but wouldn't ya know it.I lost
the fellows name and e-mail address. I thought I would post the report
on the coastal chat groups in the chance that somebody knows the people
that are studying the herons and can forward it to them. Dirk has given
permission to forward his posting to anybody. Here is his original
posting:

Regards,
Daniel Bastaja
dan at calivita.com

From: Karen &/or Dirk Rinehart-Pidcock [ mailto:edensong at netidea.com]
<mailto:edensong at netidea.com%5d>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:35 PM
> To: birding network
> Subject: [wkbirds] eage attack
>
> Kaslo friends were kayaking on Duncan Lake on August 2 or 3 and
> witnessed an adult Bald Eagle attack a Great Blue Heron in mid-air,
> knocking it to the water, dispatching it and carrying it off to some
> distant place. They were stunned as I would have been. Dirk