[quote=Crockettnj
Our osprey and bald eagle pops are WAY up too, doing better than anyone expected. Never see bald eagle on carrion.
Do Osprey eat carrion? They always seem to have a fish in talons when I see them.
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During the annual raptor migrations, I routinely flush both bald and golden eagles off of road kill, and both readily eat the gut piles from feral hogs that people shoot this time of the year.
While I have never seen an osprey eat carrion, they do migrate through here. I have a photo of one perched on a power pole just west of our house, taken on the 6th of April, in 2018. There is no open water with significant populations of fish anywhere around here.
I presume that they opportunistically eat small mammals, and perhaps road kill--certainly all of the other raptors that pass through here on their annual migrations do.
