EISPIRATEN

After yet another white knuckle bike ride to Griffith Park, I had the privilege of watching a young Osprey feed for at least 10 minutes along the LA River Bike Path, N of Los Feliz and S of Colorado today. It just kept circling around and dive bombing in front of me. Absolutely awesome!!

We have Ospreys? Dayum.

I live next to the Santa Ana River and we have Osprey visit often. On this shot I am 100 yards away; hidden (I thought) beneath a patio cover.

I think it was a young inexperienced male.
The fishing technique was more hit and miss than honed technique.

Very nice! I see them several times a year along the 605 freeway/San Gabriel River area and into the Santa Fe Dam.

Toooooooo cool!

So I returned at the same time today with a camera. No Osprey.

Just a few Great Blue Herons, Egrets, a Red Shouldered Hawk,
2 Kingfishers, a Night Heron, and a bunch of Cormorants, Mallards, etc, etc.
Yawn...

Any pics of the Kingfisher and Hawk...?

beautiful photo! i love Osprey's. i got to watch them this summer up at Lake Almanor. i need a better camera as i did not get any worthy shots.

Nary a good one, argh!
4xdigital zoom ain't a photograph it's a fingerprint at best.

I've pretty much given up trying to use my point and shoot camera to take pics of birds. Got to get much better gear for that...dslr, etc.

Went back again and was rewarded with multiple Osprey viewings but not from as close up as the first time. Pretty pleased to have conjured him up again! In fact, I think there are 2 young Ospreys along this section of the LA River.

The highlight was witnessing a dogfight between what I think is a Red Shouldered Hawk and 1 of the Ospreys.

If I can figure out how to post the clip I will, even though the quality is poor:
http://gallery.me.com/emanla/100256