Ospreys eat fish. They dive into the lake and use their feet to catch a live fish. They capture ten or more fish a day for the period of five or six months that they are here. That is a good number of fish, considering the profusion of ospreys around the lake.
Yet, try to get a good picture of the osprey lifting a fish from the water. It is a big lake, the capture is very fleeting. And when seen, it is usually rather distant. Getting a good picture of the event is, alas, iffy.
I start with one I got seven years ago, but have waited some time to get another good one.
An osprey drags a male Kokanee from the lake on 2018 August 18.
Two days ago, Cynthia caught an osprey emerging from the Lake amidst much spray. One cannot tell yet what it might have caught.
In our most dramatic photograph of the day, Cynthia caught the osprey dragging a fish from the Lake. We thought it would have had a Kokanee. It didn’t. But what is that fish?
A moment later I took this.
My favorite raptor. I have watched many hours on cams all over the world. Love the photos. The fish, looks like a Salmon but I am no expert!
Mary, my fish expert writes, “It’s definitely a salmonid based on the adipose fin and given the darker spots and colouration it look like a rainbow trout to me”
Wow
Congratulations on the superb series of photos!
Fantastic photos. Are these the Osprey that winter in Costa Rica I wonder.
Jennifer, possibly, but certainly somewhere in the south.