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OSPREYS - 2023
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Female Osprey Eating Fish on a limb while keeping an eye on a circling predator...
6 shot sequence:
Female Osprey on perch sees Male approaching with Fish.
Male lands and starts eating his part before handing off to the Female.
Hears / looks back...sees predator / intruder approaching.
Dives off the perch to get away.
Female Osprey on perch sees Male approaching with Fish.
Male lands and starts eating his part before handing off to the Female.
Hears / looks back...sees predator / intruder approaching.
Dives off the perch to get away.
Hears / looks back...sees predator / intruder approaching.
Dives off the perch to get away.
Dives off the perch to get away.
Male & Female, eye shields closed / snoozing, standing in the nest
Got him a big one for lunch !
Bringing a fish to his mate...
Nature at work.....
Female sitting eggs - Hog Island, Maine
Female Osprey returning to her nest in Finland.
The color transmission was so off I ended up doing them in B&W.
( ID Band on right ankle )
The color transmission was so off I ended up doing them in B&W.
( ID Band on right ankle )
Head & Feet of a Female Osprey that just finished her breakfast fish in England, 4000 miles away.
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Female Osprey having fish for breakfast...
Male caught a fish, ate the front part, took the rest to the female.
Male Osprey bringing more sticks to the nest...
Caught a huge fish !
Female Osprey, eye guards closed snoozing while setting her eggs
>>>Male Osprey sitting 2 eggs while Female takes a break.
>>>Female flies back to perch and squawks to Male that she’s coming.
>>>Male gets up off the eggs and Female flies to the nest.
>>>Female closely checks the eggs before sitting on them.
>>>Female flies back to perch and squawks to Male that she’s coming.
>>>Male gets up off the eggs and Female flies to the nest.
>>>Female closely checks the eggs before sitting on them.
Another good catch for lunch...
Mama Osprey & 3 chicks...hatched 9 days ago...nest at the Outer Banks
Mama feeding fish-bits to her 3 chicks for breakfast.....Outer Banks, NC.
Mama keeping her Chicks warm, with good left-over fish waiting...
Both chicks fed now snoozing.....nest at 'Loch of the Lowes, UK'
Webcam quality or 4000 miles of network doesn't seem as good as most.
Webcam quality or 4000 miles of network doesn't seem as good as most.
Sky was getting light this morning and caught the Male Osprey bringing a breakfast fish to the egg-sitting Female at the nest...2500 miles away at Charlo, Montana up near the Washington State / Canadian border.
( 8-shot sequence )
( 8-shot sequence )
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Carthage, TN.....Male brings fish to nest for Female and 2 Hatchlings.....( 5 shot sequence )
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Signs of Full a Tummy...
Carthage, TN.....3 Eggs were laid.....2 Eggs produced Hatchlings...1 Egg has not hatched.
Of the 2 Hatchlings, 1 has now died...( at 6 o'clock in the photo )
Of the 2 Hatchlings, 1 has now died...( at 6 o'clock in the photo )