From Gavin McCue via International Owl Center
An incredible photo of a little Blue-gray Gnatcatcher mobbing a Barred Owl. Most birds hate owls and if they see them, they will dive bomb the owls, sometimes actually hitting their head. Photographer Gavin McCue says he just happened to be in the right place at the right time and had a very high shutter speed to capture this.
Wow, it’s really cool. Thanks for sharing this!
It looks so much like a friendly meet up
I was so thrilled to find it! I’ve gotten a bunch where you can tell the other bird, especially when it’s a large one or another raptor, that it is a fight, but this one comes off initially as so innocent.
If you check one of my other replies in this post, I talk about my wren vs woodpecker stories from this spring, and how that initially looked playful but escalated greatly to the point I thought there may have been a retaliatory assassination!