Osprey Breakfast

Gallery: AvianPosted February 4, 2012154 views3 comments

January 29, 2012 San Joaquin Wildlife Preserve Irvine, CA
This post is in the parking lot and there is a fair view higher than the lot from the road. The past two weeks I have seen an Osprey on the post eating a fish. How there are two fish is a mystery. Later he flew off and left the second fish.

Nikon D300 Nikon 200-400mm 400mm ISO-250 f/8 Manual
White Balance Auto
cropped to 75% CS5

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3 comments

Comment posted by Alan Murphy on February 4, 2012 at 2:47 PM

A classic Osprey scene. Wish for more detail in the blacks.

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Comment posted by Robbie Knight on February 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM

Thanks for sharing. This bird is also banded on its right leg with a Service silver band. This is a band used to track dispersal and is usually placed on chicks while still not Volant and in the nest...... Then when they grow up, fly off, and eventually die, a record from "cradle to grave" exists..... If you can get close enough and can read the last three numbers on the band the bbl can tell us where the bird was first banded. Left leg is also banded now I look closer....

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Comment posted by Harry Harris on February 5, 2012 at 12:28 PM

Nice image and story Patrick. With that bright sky behind the Osprey a little positive EV might have helped with the dark areas.

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