A COUPLE OF IN FLIGHT PHOTO OF THE DAY!!

[Shultzie]

Check out these WILD IN FLIGHT PHOTOS!!!

[Joe Messinger]

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

[Peter Ferguson]

By the look on his face I guess its the carps first flight....................and last. Nice photos.

[Herb Calvin]

Yea, you could hear him screaming all the way to the nest.hehehehehehe

[Tom Niebuhr]

Amazing pictures!  Thanks Don.

[Bootlegger]

     I'm thinkin' that was a da#n good photog !!!  Did you shot tose  Schultze

[Shultzie]

   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.

However here is couple of shots I took at the Tacoma Waterfront yesterday after lunch.

[john e. holliday]

Great pictures.  I wish I could remember the commercial that showed an Eagle swooping down to get his/her fish for the day.