Flying Osprey With Fish In Talons Photos

I think are amazing, whether I took them or someone else. An Osprey is a beautiful bird and exhibits such gracefulness with its huge wingspan of (50-71 inches).

Flying Osprey with fish in talons photo

The fish in the Flying Osprey talons I believe is a Gar.

Osprey Talons With Fish

As you can see in the above photo their talons are very strong. They are capable of carrying prey up to 4.4 pounds. With their very keen vision they can spot prey underwater from heights up to 131 feet while flying above the water.

A popular breeding area of Ospreys in Florida is Blue Cypress Lake, just west of Vero Beach. That is where these flying osprey photos were taken. We were on a pontoon boat at the time which made for some challenging photography.

Ospreys are of the  raptor species and the 2nd most widely distributed.

Flying Osprey with a Gar in its talons

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