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Title: A COUPLE OF IN FLIGHT PHOTO OF THE DAY!!
Post by: Shultzie on April 08, 2010, 10:13:55 AM
Check out these WILD IN FLIGHT PHOTOS!!!
Title: Re: A COUPLE OF IN FLIGHT PHOTO OF THE DAY!!
Post by: Joe Messinger on April 08, 2010, 11:24:20 AM
Pretty amazing as both the carp and the trout probably weigh nearly as much as the osprey.  Darn good lift ratio for an osprey!

If you've ever watched an osprey dive and catch a fish you often wonder if the bird is going to drown.  They hit the water, grasp the fish, lay on the surface with their wings spread and flounder around for a few seconds.  Then with great effort, somehow, they manage to become airborn.  The osprey turns the fish head first to streamline it, flies off and has his meal.  The technique isn't nearly as graceful and smooth as an eagle's method of skimming over the surface and plucking a fish from the water in mid flight without getting a feather wet but is, nonetheless, quite effective.

Joe
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Post by: Peter Ferguson on April 08, 2010, 11:37:55 AM
By the look on his face I guess its the carps first flight....................and last. Nice photos.
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Post by: Herb Calvin on April 09, 2010, 09:02:20 AM
Yea, you could hear him screaming all the way to the nest.hehehehehehe ~^
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Post by: Tom Niebuhr on April 09, 2010, 09:05:32 AM
Amazing pictures!  Thanks Don.
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Post by: Bootlegger on April 09, 2010, 11:55:36 AM
   #^  I'm thinkin' that was a da#n good photog !!!  Did you shot tose  Schultze ???
Title: Re: A COUPLE OF IN FLIGHT PHOTO OF THE DAY!!
Post by: Shultzie on April 09, 2010, 02:21:43 PM
  #^  I'm thinkin' that was a da#n good photog !!!  Did you shot tose  Schultze ???

No...National Geo' website...my sister in law sent them to me. H^^

However here is couple of shots I took at the Tacoma Waterfront yesterday after lunch.
Title: Re: A COUPLE OF IN FLIGHT PHOTO OF THE DAY!!
Post by: john e. holliday on April 10, 2010, 09:26:20 AM
Great pictures.  I wish I could remember the commercial that showed an Eagle swooping down to get his/her fish for the day. H^^