big bird
It's no surprise to me that osprey are here. But I was surprised to see this one today. From a distance I thought the fishing bird was an eagle, but eagles don't dive head-first into the water, and their wings are held straight. This bird came out of the water, with a large fish held in its talons, and even took a moment while flying to shake water off.
Now I'm going to have to learn a lot about osprey. I'll never get anything done.
Photo by Danny Shaw
5 Comments:
it's always something with you, innit?
on my way into the office today, i saw, for the second time, a gorgeous small black bird with very bright patches of red on each wing (red winged black bird, perhaps??) and i'm just about to check out for sure what it is. i see a lot of birds in ny i didn't normally see in pa. and, i've also noticed several black squirrels...which i find interesting, too.
We have a good amount of osprey here in Oregon, and they are very cool with big nests.
Red winged black birds also have a patch of yellow with the red on the wings. They are without a doubt my favorite bird.
isn't that technically doing something? damn. what a great life you have.
sighs. i want one... a life that is.
we have hordes of osprey in Florida and they build the most gargantuan nests--often on top of electrical poles. The power company is now putting up huge dishes on tops of dummy poles to entice the birds off the power poles.
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