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The steep dive of an osprey grasps my attention this morning. Plummeting vertically into the sea with a splash, the sea eagle seizes a fish (a mullet, I think) in its talons and flies into the oaks by the beach road. Still alive, the fish must be in utter terror, leaving its watery element. There is much violence in nature, but seldom do we see its brute force. We know that big fish eat little fish, but that happens underwater out of our sight. — Diary, autumn 2009
From the diary of beach walker George Thatcher, a retired banker, of Gulfport. E-mail: fishcrow@aol.com. A fourth volume of Thatcher’s work, “A Decade of Beach Walks,” is available in bookstores and gift shops and at the South Mississippi Store link to sunherald.com.
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