Osprey Ta-da!

[Donkees]

Osprey

ILCE-1 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS lens 470mm f/7.1 1/3200s 640 ISO 0.0 EV

[Lonestarblue]

1. Wow! Amazing shot.

[The Jungle 1]

2. I am a little stiff this morning. I needa ta stretch a bit.

Now leave me alone.

[erronis]

3. That's a hunter. Can see why there's a attack helicopter named the Osprey.

[AverageOldGuy]

4. Our ospreys do not return . . .

. . . until March, same time the eagles return.

Great photo!!! I have a lot of osprey and bald eagle pics but none as striking as yours!!

I'm in a rural VA county where the Potomac River joins the Chesapeake Bay; osprey and bald eagles are common in the summer. A small number of eagles are year-round, but most of them and the osprey leave in September-October and return in March.

Within 1/4 mile of my home are 2 osprey nests and 1 eagle nest to which the birds return each year.

Tundra Swans show up here in early December and stay until early March. There's a group of 12 in the creek next to my house right now, mixed in with a couple of hundred Canada Geese.

[Donkees]

5. elleng in this group is also awaiting the return of the ospreys who nest near her home

and will be posting their photos. Share yours too

[RainCaster]

6. We have an osprey nest, too

But last spring a pair of bald eagles were admiring the nest when the seahawks returned to it. So the ospreys went elsewhere. A few weeks later, the eagles moved on. I was actually rather glad the ospreys didn't nest there last spring, as they do fish out our koi pond for that last desperate week before ejecting their young.