Posted on 01/03/2020 11:20:34 AM PST by steveben
Watching the majestic osprey soar through the sky is a sight to behold. It takes a skilled photographer to shoot pictures of them when they’re flying. And an even better artist to get photos of them when they’re in the middle of hunting
I once designed a little hybrid circuit that’s inside the spinner of each of those props. Got 23 ICs on it. Whole things about the size of two postage stamps side by side.
We have BOTH KINDS HERE!...............
They miss a lot, too.
Warthogs are good, too.
The fish was dropped, they both lost the fight.
Anyway, there was a huge osprey nest right there where the golf course ended and the Pax river began. Watched them hunt and fish all day.
I'll bet, though it's been 30 years since I fished there, the descendants of those same osprey are still nesting there.
Ha, that fella got himself a twofer. The fish have this look on their faces, “Where’s the water? It was here a minute ago!”
>>Anyway, there was a huge osprey nest
Do they come in any other size?
I attended an Osprey talk by a very knowledgeable naturalist at the Snowgoose Festival in Chico, CA a year ago. She said that the male / female pairs split up when they migrate south in the fall of every year and meet back at their nest the following spring. It’s a long, arduous migration, often to Central or South America.
She told the story of one pair where the male arrived first and dutifully waited about three weeks for his mate to arrive back at the nest. A new younger female showed up, wooed the male, and he took her as his new mate.
You know what happened next! The first female mate arrived rather late after her “spouse” had taken a new “bride” and all Hell broke loose. Female #1 defeated and vanquished Female #2 and re-won the heart of her male mate.
Believe it or not, Facebook won’t let me share the article. What have they got against birds catching fish?
My first thought...
Now I think they're coming back in the spring.
Two summers ago I was playing softball at a park that had a pond at the entrance to the park. I happened to catch an osprey that was fishing the pond, making several unsuccessful dives. It obviously came from the metro park lake that was maybe 8 or 10 miles away.......It was really cool watching it.
In the Keys I saw an American eagle take a fish away from an osprey. I head a scream, looked up and saw the osprey drop the fish. The fish landed about 75 feet away from me on the other side of a canal. The eagle alighted, swaggered over to the fish, picked it up and flew away with it.
40 years ago, I spent some time doing an osprey nesting survey for the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon. I’d set up where I could see a nest with a mother sheltering the chicks, then watch through a spotting scope and try to decide how many little heads would pop up from time to time. Tedious but fun.
Those claws are the stuff of nightmares.
A sensor of some kind?
Well obviously FB can’t have ospreys displaying the ability to obtain sustenance for themselves that wasn’t provided by the mighty and benevolent hand of The Government. That could lead to people trying that sort of dangerous silliness themselves.
:-)
Peach
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