Like minds

This is a quirky posting. Most postings are about non-human nature. This is not.

I go for photographic walks with my daughter, Cynthia. We are often separated by anything from three metres to thirty metres as we observe nature.

Yesterday, we watched an osprey flying in circles over the lake hunting fish. It eventually caught one and brought it back our way. One picture I took I really liked. It was the osprey alighting on a distant tree branch, presumably to eat the tasty head of the fish (a common practice) before taking the rest to the nest. Alas, it promptly flew off again when it spotted another bird which, it feared, might try to steal the fish. But the picture of it landing on the tree branch was fine.

All this time, Cynthia was behind bushes somewhere not very far away doing her own observing.

I got home and showed her the osprey landing on the branch with its fish. Cynthia said, “I got one just like that.” I show both pictures. They were probably taken within a millisecond of each other. Minor differences reflect differences in our positions and cameras. Other than that, we both apparently thought: This might make a good shot. 

Cynthia’s picture of an osprey landing on a branch with its fish.

My picture of an osprey landing on the branch with its fish.