{"id":16665,"date":"2013-07-03T04:27:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=16665"},"modified":"2013-07-03T04:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:27:51","slug":"osprey-in-flight-with-trout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/osprey-in-flight-with-trout\/","title":{"rendered":"Osprey In Flight With Trout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just over six weeks ago I spent some time photographing a mated pair of Ospreys at Flaming Gorge in\u00a0northeast Utah.\u00a0 At the time they were incubating eggs and they alternated time on the nest.\u00a0 When one of the birds was incubating the other one spent\u00a0most of its time hunting, eating and preening.<\/p>\n

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This is the male (smaller than the female with a less distinct breast band or “necklace”).\u00a0 After a successful fishing expedition he would hand on a far away perch and consume part of the fish and then sometimes bring what was left of the meal to a perch closer to the nest to finish it off.<\/p>\n

These four images are a series as the male came in close with a trout.<\/p>\n

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The shape and position of the wing in this image\u00a0somehow caused a double shadow effect on the side of the breast that to my eye almost looks like it was caused by sloppy processing, which isn’t the case.\u00a0 All I did to any of these images was minor exposure adjustment, crop and sharpen.<\/p>\n

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In most of these shots you can see the bulge of the crop caused by the consumption of part of the fish just a few minutes before.<\/p>\n

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The first three shots in this series were sequential in a burst but this one is seven frames after the previous image so the bird is almost past me but I liked the banking position of the wings and the good look at what’s left of the fish.<\/p>\n

I realize that some may be put off by the graphic nature of the bloody and headless trout but that comes with the territory when you’re a fish-eating raptor.<\/p>\n

Or a bird photographer…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Just over six weeks ago I spent some time photographing a mated pair of Ospreys at Flaming Gorge in northeast Utah. At the time they were incubating eggs and they alternated time on the nest. When one of the birds was incubating the other one spent most of its time hunting, eating and preening.<\/p>\n

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