Another Wild Kingdom moment on th weekend. Watching a pack of twenty-five great blue herons scattered about the wandering water in a tall grass wetland, we spotted a red-shouldered hawk standing on a little blue heron carcass. The herons spotted him too. Twenty-five long necks with little heads popped up out of the grass to watch. A ferruginous hawk joined him. The hawks were okay with each other, both standing at the same carcass, but not with the dive-bombing peregrine falcons. A pair of peregrines hassled the ferruginous into leaving. The red-shouldered finally flew away out of sight, lugging the treasure in his talons. The peregrine pair flew back to stand on the sandbar on the salt flats watching the gulls and shorebirds.
