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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · The Osprey's lunchtime adventure

I was near the osprey nest at the Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside, NY when mom flew past me with a fish. She landed on her nest and started calling the kids. About a minute later one of the juveniles arrived.

-1 Mom with fish

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460966-6.jpg

-2 Juvenile osprey backing in

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460918-6.jpg

-3 Mom realizes she is in peril

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460899-6.jpg

-4 The crash

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460837-6.jpg

-5

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460791-6.jpg

-6 The juvenile starts to recover

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460758-6.jpg

-7 And climbs back into the air

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460712-6.jpg

-8

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460668-6.jpg

-9 Second landing attempt

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460616-6.jpg

-10 A sigh of relief

https://www.morrisaltman.com/img/s/v-10/p3933460577-6.jpg

Comments and suggestions welcome,

Morris

Jul 18, 2020 at 06:45 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · The Osprey's lunchtime adventure

Amazing series of photos, Morris. Great work!
Bob

Jul 18, 2020 at 06:51 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · The Osprey's lunchtime adventure

morris wrote:
I was near the osprey nest

I was in the Osprey nest

Very nice.

Jul 18, 2020 at 06:53 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · The Osprey's lunchtime adventure

That's quite the perspective in the second shot with the talons coming from "nowhere."

great action Morris

regards,
bruce

Jul 18, 2020 at 11:45 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · The Osprey's lunchtime adventure

Excellent images, Morris and my picks would be the ones showing more the face/head of the osprey or ospreys, #1, #2 and the last image. But I understand that the juvenile osprey wasn't quite up there to make the landing more smoothly in the middle of the sequence

Joshua

Jul 18, 2020 at 11:54 AM


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