Osprey landing on its perch

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Osprey building its nest

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Livermore, CA

A foggy morning in Astoria.

A few shots of these beautiful birds in my garden

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Red Winged Blackbird just as the leap to flight was initiated.

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) , State Game Land 214, Crawford County, Pennsylvania

This is the last in this series of the Tern after a dive. The entire series takes less than one second. You can see them all in the previous shots in my photostream.

Elegant Tern

Thalasseus elegans

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Purple martin

Sub-adult male Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), Pollinator Garden, Meadville, Pennsylvania

Ameenpur, Hyderabad, India

A long time waiting...

Always exciting to see a Red Tailed Hawk in my area. We have Red Shouldered Hawks galore, but it is unusual to see a Red Tailed. I was fortunate to see a breeding pair (missed photographing the "act") the other day, Just love how the inflight shots show off their namesake

this female ruby-throated hummingbird inspects a coral honeysuckle flower

sandhill cranes

Sony A9 + Sony FE 200-600 G OSS.

Birds swimming and flying about at parc des rapides in Ville LaSalle.

Buteo jamaicensis

Geese flying in for the evening over Brandon Marsh

purple martin

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Gull Point, Presque Isle State Park, Erie, Pennsylvania

Egans Creek, Fernandina Beach, FL

Hyderabad, India

... unfortunately, he chases all the other Hummingbirds away.

Allen's Hummingbird

Selasphorus sasin

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The osprey or more specifically the western osprey (Pandion haliaetus) — also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk — is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly white-greyish on the head and underparts.

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hooded Merganser

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), Meadville, Pennsylvania

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Bonaparte's Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia), Pymatuning Lake, Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Great Gull Island, NY

Burrowing Owl, Juvenile

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Adult male Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius), a.k.a. the gray ghost. Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

A beautiful Common Snipe landing at Titchfield Haven. 😍😍

Ameenpur, Hyderabad, India