Ospreys
View allAll Photos Tagged osprey
Another Osprey ... it's been raining and miserable here all week so I was lucky to have a tiny bit of blue in the background here.
We had one final session this evening with the Ospreys and were lucky enough to get one final dive :-)
While I highly doubt it's the case, it looks to me like the fish in this shot asked the osprey to take him somewhere -- and is going along for a fun ride while copying the expression of the bird carrying him!
Osprey with a successful catch photographed from the observation deck on Lake Hancock off of Alligator Alley Trail in Circle B Bar Reserve located in Polk County Lakeland Florida U.S.A.
The ospreys’ extensive breeding range extends to all the continents except South America (where it occurs widely in winter) and the Antarctic. The North American population declined greatly after 1947 because of the eggshell-thinning effects of DDT residues but began to recover after the pesticide was banned in 1972. Exterminated from the British Isles by 1910, the osprey reappeared there as a successfully breeding species in the 1950s and is now firmly reestablished in Scotland. Britannica
©Copyright Notice
This photograph and all those within my photostream are protected by copyright. They may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without my written permission.
A male Osprey flew off his nest to challenge a Bald Eagle that was flying to close for his comfort. He was very unhappy and was screeching very loud. The Eagle flew right by and ignored the Osprey.
Osprey with a freshly caught fish. Here's looking at you, kid.
Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at sunset.
Chester Dam, Idaho
An Osprey stares down the competition at a favorite perch overlooking the Henrys Fork river.
He was ignoring his mate's incessant begging for food for her and the kids. He had brought a fish to them perhaps an hour before this, according to a source.
The osprey, 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 in length and 180 cm across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts. Wikipedia
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing) Encyclopedia of Life
Thanks to everyone that views and comments on my images - very much appreciated.I
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. On all my images, Use without permission is illegal.
for me the first time I could capture one
für mich das allererste Mal, dass ich einen fotografieren konnte
a couple of frames earlier than the shot posted a couple of weeks ago. the Osprey is in the middle of a vigorous shake to shed water after pulling it's latest fish out of the water
Follow us to enjoy more photos like this
f/2.8, 1/3200 sec, ISO-100, 400mm
#PhotoOfTheDay #BirdWatching #BirdsOfPrey #BestPhotos #Discoverwildlife #animal #earthfocus #earth #birdingphotography #birdpics #bird_captures #osprey #ospreyphotography #animalphotography #natgeo #nature #wildlife #Discovery #naturelovers #photography #rspb #best_birds_planet #BBCWildlifePOTD #unitedkingdom #uk
Osprey at Circle B
From Audubon
A very distinctive fish-hawk, formerly classified with other hawks but now placed in a separate family of its own. Along coastlines, lakes, and rivers almost worldwide, the Osprey is often seen flying over the water, hovering, and then plunging feet-first to catch fish in its talons. After a successful strike, the bird rises heavily from the water and flies away, carrying the fish head-forward with its feet.
This young osprey is learning to fish and fly on his own. He flew to this post which is fairly close for viewing and photographing him.
Osprey feasting on it's catch of the day up in a Cypress tree in the Banana Creek Marsh off of the Heron Hideout Trail in the Circle B Bar Reserve located in the City of Lakeland in Polk Country Florida U.S.A.
©Copyright Notice
This photograph and all those within my photostream are protected by copyright. They may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without my written permission.