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Saturday, August 20. 2011

Good Osprey video

Here. In one of the scenes, he nails a fish which is almost too heavy for him to lift.


I have read that Ospreys sometimes drown by being overly-ambitious with big fish.

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 10:22 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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That's a great video.

Had one on our lake when we were growing up and they definitely can carry some very big fish.
#1 Mark M on 2011-08-20 10:53 (Reply)
Well, thanks - learned something again. I saw one the other day out on Lake Murray and wondered what kind of hawk it was - turns out it wasn't a hawk but an osprey.

It was hunting the same area I was fishing for large mouth. It may have got one because I heard a splash around the corner of the cove I was fishing and I saw it later up in a pine tree at what looked like a nest of some sort.

Interesting anyway.
#2 Tom Francis on 2011-08-20 11:44 (Reply)
See how they turn the fish parallel to their body, nose into the wind - aerodynamics. Incredible birds. Wonderful comeback here on Long Island in the past 30 years.
#3 Billst on 2011-08-20 11:51 (Reply)
That's one useful clue to identify an Osprey when it's on the wing with a fish. They tend to do that whenever possible, more so than bigger fishing raptors.

Saw one about a year ago carrying a fish exactly in the same posture as the very last Osprey shown in the video. I was crossing a bridge over the Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia, headed east. The bird must have just pulled the fish out of the river - about a hundred yards before I hit the South Carolina side it came soaring up over the bridge railing with the fish, maybe twenty feet over the road. I saw him look at me as I drove under him.
#3.1 T.K. Tortch on 2011-08-20 13:56 (Reply)
Cool post, BD. The shot of it actually flapping its wings under water was outstanding.
#4 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2011-08-20 13:35 (Reply)

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