Osprey, Pandion haliaetus
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![]() I've taken quite a few pictures of the spectacular fisher of birds, the Osprey, but most of my best ones came one visit to Blue Cypress Lake in central Florida, March 25-26, 2015. Thanks to Susan Schermer for introducing me to this fabulous photographic opportunity! |
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![]() Ospreys were nesting all around the lake; here's one carrying nesting material. | |
![]() And another one carrying food, a just-captured fish. | |
![]() I took the picture above early in my bird photography days, June 2004, at Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco, one of a sequence of shots of this bird carrying the fish in and eating it. The whole sequence can be seen here. | |
![]() Back to Blue Cypress Lake in 2015, and an Osprey feeding on a fish it had just captured. | |
![]() A nesting pair. | |
![]() Above and below, female parent carrying fish to nest and feeding young bird piece by piece. This was in summer of 2015 at a long-established Osprey nest near Monterey Bay in central California. | |
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