Osprey Photo Blog

American Oystercatcher.

Photo by Oleg Gurvits

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Eagle plucks out lunch from the sea!

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The eye of the Baitball
Cristóbal Serrano found this great circling shoal of grunt fish in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico, and watched it over two days.
He would dive down and then sit on the sandy bottom some 20 metres below the surface to watch. With the sky behind the fish ball,’ he says, ‘it looked like a shimmering body of energy. I just needed a focal point to get the picture I was after.
A pelagic cormorant was also watching the fish, and now and then it would shoot a hole through the ever-tightening baitball (tightening in response to the predator), making it easier for it to pick off individual fish.
Cristóbal tried to predict the angle that the cormorant would use. After many attempts, using a fisheye lens and strobes to illuminate the fish and the sandy bottom, he got the shot.
Photographer: Cristóbal Serrano ~ http://goo.gl/j03Fl

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“green” by Thomas Ramackers

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Common Kingfisher. Photo by FrancoBorsiWildlife

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Taiwan by richard.mcmanus. on Flickr.

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Wood Duck. Photo by John Haig

Just chillin’

Photo by Oleg Gurvits

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“Tricolored Heron” by Robert Whitaker

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Gannet dinner.

Photo by Oleg Gurvits