Ospreys | Compelling Chronicle ___ 00_SZN0922-Enhanced-NR-1 copy

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Ospreys | Compelling Chronicle ___ 00_SZN0922-Enhanced-NR-1 copy
Ospreys | Compelling Chronicle ___ 00_SZN0922-Enhanced-NR-1 copy

Ospreys | Compelling Chronicle

What’s behind a compelling image? Intuition, gut feeling and luck all come to mind. All converged earlier today, but not until after I made a conscious choice about which site I opted to visit and then which turn I made at a fork on the nature trail I was hiking on. I had not been on this particular path for a year and was totally surprized to come upon a group of as many as nine Ospreys, including a few females, gliding at various elevations and crisscrossing each other over the shallow end of a windswept bay that echoed their distinctive calls in the Thousand Islands Area. A testimony of the successful population recovery of this long-migrator breeding in our region since the banning of DDT and helped by habitat protection efforts and conservation initiatives. This particular Osprey easily picked up this (brown) Bullhead, a bottom feeder that should not have ventured to the top of the water column but now caught in the unbreakable hold of the raptor’s powerful talons. By nature, Ospreys are not territorial, hence the above described gathering. However, as depicted in following pictures, this raptor will not tolerate other Ospreys or other birds of prey near its nest. Unlike some of the composite images of same birds I post from time to time, the images in this series are of an actual male osprey aggressively chasing another one of the same feathers off its nesting area before making a graceful, yet cautious and delicate, landing on the elevated nest, home to its ducking mate and two nestlings, the later most likely left with an unfulfilled appetite for the male brought a less than satisfying portion of fish. Thanks for taking the time to read as well as viewing.

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Taken on: July 20, 2024
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