They miss a lot, too.
Warthogs are good, too.
The fish was dropped, they both lost the fight.
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!”
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?
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.
Those claws are the stuff of nightmares.
We spend summer on a lake in Maine watching the osprey, bald eagles, kingfishers and other lake critters, always amazing.
The osprey are remarkable: no fear of eagles (build nests on very top of the pines), so fast, so adept. Love this image! Fits what I see daily on the lake all summer, but so cool to see it in slow mo.
Thanks for posting.