Osprey in Flight with Fish in Talons

This is from a recent trip to the Gulf Coast of Florida. The area offers unparalleled opportunities to get close to fishing Ospreys and I came back with a rich collection of keepers. This is one of my favourites because of the eye contact and the wing position.

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Very nice capture. He was checking you out for sure.

I like the way its head is cocked to the side. Very nice.

Thanks folks, I was pretty pleased when I saw this on the computer screen

Very nice shot, kinda looks like he is starting to turn the fish face first, Great Shooting!

That's exactly what the Osprey tried to do... but the bird ended up dropping the fish! I saw two of the, drop the fish and none of them were successful in getting one back to a perch to eat it. I was wondering if they might have been this year's young, perhaps not all that skillful. Or maybe Osprey's just have a low strike rate with flippin' big fish