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Awesome - I wonder how much time and effort it took to capture the second sequence with the underwater camera. I imagine they had to view this Osprey for quite awhile to figure out the best camera placement for the under water shot and then they just had to wait a long time until they got lucky enough to get the shot in frame - perhaps with some remote connection to the camera to re-aim it as the bird was coming down? I'd really like to know how they got that shot.

Also, I've always thought it would be cool to have a trained Osprey to do my fishing for me. Kind of like being a falconer only for fishing instead of hunting.
 
wow. at the end after the bird gets a second claw into the fish it looks like hes riding a skateboard with one leg farther back.

I have seen osprey here in Everett, Everett is a osprey breeding area, feed on flat fish. I was really surprised the first time I saw it. I willing to bet that the flat fish was staked down or baited in a someway to get that shot. I too would really like to know.
 
Badass! Love how it shook like a dog, yet still maintained flight. Amazing. I saw a red tail snag a gray rabbit on the side of the highway once. Pretty cool to see for a guy from Hawai'i. :wink:
 
Pretty good shooting, and pre-planning. The flat fish dive into the water reminded me of a canoe trip when I had an osprey hit the water, about 5 feet from the canoe, in about 10 feet of very clear water and come out with a 16-18 inch fish. I wasn't watching it until the "splat", but heard a bit of the wind whistle just before. Had I seen him dropping in like that, I'd have been concerned he was headed for me. Those are BIG talons.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
Watch the scene after the bird does the deep dive for the fish...something very large was swimming near the surface towards the location of the bird.
 
starcrafttom":2i4gjynu said:
<stuff clipped> have seen osprey here in Everett, Everett is a osprey breeding area, feed on flat fish. I was really surprised the first time I saw it. I willing to bet that the flat fish was staked down or baited in a someway to get that shot. I too would really like to know.
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Current theory is that the second sequence is actually two (or perhaps 3) sequences spliced together. They probably put a dead flounder on the bottom in front of the underwater camera to capture that scene. Then spliced it in with a separate scene of the bird entering and leaving the water.
 
Oh I agree about the different shots. I never thought the above and below water shots were from the same dive. Its just interested in how they set up the cameras and bait for the underwater shots.
 
starcrafttom":sgbimxqr said:
Oh I agree about the different shots. I never thought the above and below water shots were from the same dive. <stuff clipped>
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I have to admit that I saw them as a single dive. I wasn't really thinking about it and my mind followed the story just as the film maker intended.
 
Definitely an over achiever!

We captured shots of Osprey and Dolphins feeding on the same school of fish at Ocean View DE back in 2010. Watching is a great way to pass the time on the beach.

Bill Uffelman
Las Vegas NV and Ocean View DE
 
I found a young Osprey on the road down into Bridge Bay Marina next to I-5 a few years back that had been pushed out of the nest by a larger sibling (common occurance).

From a disance, I first thought it was a chicken, but not after seeing it up close!

At that stage, they can't fly, and I thought it would be coyote dinner for sure, so I put on a set of gloves and picked it up, put it in a cardboard box, and first took it to my vet in Redding to have it checked out, then to the Shasta Wildlife Conservation Center in Anderson to be raised and released.

Quite a few weeks later, we took it back to Shasta Lake and let it go.

Every time I see an osprey at the lake, I think about the one we returned to its home.

Here's a photo of the osprey in the vet's office with an assistant.

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Joe. :teeth :thup
 

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Hmmm, that looks like an unhappy bird...

We were driving down our long driveway one snowy night and there was a full grown rabbit that leaped from the snow bank into the wheel track right in front of us... I instinctively let off the gas pedal to give him time to jump across as my wife simultaneously said, 'don't hit him." and simultaneously with that a large owl shot into the head lights, nailed the bunny with that deep knee bend that drives the talons in, and then struggling to get all that weight in the air went flapping down the driveway about 2 feet off the ground, the bunny hanging limp from his talons... My wife was quite upset over the bunny... I didn't say anything to her, but I knew the owl was caught under natures imperative - eat or die...
 
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