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Of all the birds that inhabit the river, surprisingly few are carrion eaters.  The osprey is not one of them.   If a fish is dead or (as in this photo) dying, an osprey may come in and check it out, but it will reject an opportunity for a "free meal."  Great blue herons, likewise, are not carrion eaters.  In fact, they can be rather picky eaters.  I have seen two occasions where one has caught a fish and not eaten it.  Once, a heron caught (what I later discovered was about an eight inch rockfish), dropped it on the shore and stabbed it with it's beak, then walked away without eating it.  On the following day, the same bird caught a five or six inch unidentified fish and intentionally dropped it back into the river.