Amazing osprey video.

[trof]

I've watched ospreys fish in my 'back yard', but never saw anything like this.

[Skittles]

1. lemme ask you trof

do you pilots analyze the wing action when you see such videos?

this one is cool too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2CFckjfP-1E

[trof]

6. Sorta. I understand what gives lift to a wing, but...

I was never that much into analyzing the 'mechanics' of it.
'Yeah, I see, that's how it works, OK.'


I'm amazed at how the bird can shake off the water, like a dog, and still remain airborne.
I know he's losing a lot of lift with the extra weight and degraded flight dynamics of the wet wings.

The size of that last payload (trout?) is mind boggling.
The goshawk video is a good one too.
Thanks.

[Skittles]

8. when my bf and I rented a houseboat in northern Minnesota

guys came in a boat to bring the houseboat back into the cove to park - they were telling us they saw what they thought was an injured eagle flapping in the water - on closer inspection what had happened was the eagle had bagged himself a fish apparently too big to take airborne so the eagle was winging it in the water with his prey to the nearest island - the guys said they got a big WTF ARE YOU LOOKING AT look from the eagle.......so they let him be

[amerikat]

9. An osprey can lift up to twice its own weight

an eagle can only lift prey about equal to its weight. Birds are
amazing creatures.

[bluesbassman]

2. Stunning! I was fortunate enough to see some "fishing" myself...

Huntington Lake in the Sierra Nevadas a few years back. Got this shot of an osprey with a trout. Also got to witness a bald eagle trying to steal a fish that an osprey had caught. Happened right over my head out on the lake, but the pictures came out way overexposed. To excited to check my settings!

[petronius]

3. Wow, those really are incredible! The flatfish in particular - I had no idea

they did that...

[trof]

7. I think it's a flounder.

Could be a halibut though.
I had no idea ospreys could dive.

[MuseRider]

4. Incredible!

We usually get one or two a year that stop by and fish my big pond. It is my front yard so we get to watch but I have never seen anything like this. We get bald eagles too but they usually are carrying rabbits.

Great video. How on earth did they get that underwater shot? Wow!

[BlueJazz]

5. If you could train about 30-40 of those bad-boys, you could have "Osprey rides"

I see them all the time here in Tampa Bay. They're incredible.