I used to have to do this as a kid, or we followed in the dinghy where dinner was tossed in before the barracudas and sharks got a smell of it. I don’t have to do that anymore;) One can say I actually have had my fill of fish for a lifetime! Ha! OK, I still eat some fish;) This Osprey will happily eat fish it’s entire life.
It wasn’t the best light but this Osprey did a fly by…I was sitting on the upper deck, I thought I’d seen a bald eagle in the distance earlier. It flew right past me, looking, searching, it had it’s eye on something! And then down it went into a dive, dropping like jet fighter! There was quite the splash!
I wasn’t sure if it had caught anything, there was so much spray and wing flapping. Droplets flying everywhere! But yup…dinner was ready!
Off it went after a midflight shake, heading to the other side of the lake where it landed in a tree…
Such a delight to watch. It does help being up fairly high to catch these moments, or to even see them!
I do like the waters edge view as well. I sat and was waiting for the loons to come just a bit closer, looks like a pair. I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye and caught a pair of wood ducks flying over, so fast, it was just a blur. I wasn’t sure what they were until I saw the picture.
We are so fortunate to live in a wild area. My childhood spoiled me for natural places. I enjoyed the city when I was younger but truthfully, this makes my heart sing. The sound of the Spring peepers, I snuck the window open a crack last night, don’t tell Mike, ha!…pure joy.
It’s time to get the gangplank (such a great word) to the dock hooked up, it floats free all Winter because the ice movement would rip it off it’s hinges. Put the little red canoe in the water, and go see what is coming back at the lake! In the swamp on our small gravel road a pair of Trumpeter swans has been hanging out. Sometimes with a pair of Canada Geese, an odd Hooded Merganser, and some ring necked ducks as well this week! They were getting photobombed by a male Hooded Merganser. It shows just how large these Trumpeter swans are!
I’ll catch up on our yard birds later, some new arrivals and our first wildflowers! I’m dusting off the hummingbird feeders…:) Soon!
I’ll leave you with a part of my fishing childhood in the Pacific;) Sometimes I just took the camera, not the speargun:) In fact, we spent more time in the water than out, maybe we are part fish, and yes, hairbrushes were optional and if it fit, clothing wise, you wore it:) Ha! I’m still thinking about life, how incredibly fast it goes by and how we really need to seize every moment, live it and savour it! Saludos amigos!
