This is a short video of an osprey catching fish. It is amazing what these creatures can do.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/nA3LtX...layer_embedded
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This is a short video of an osprey catching fish. It is amazing what these creatures can do.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/nA3LtX...layer_embedded
Beautiful birds. We have a few of those here on Wheeler.
Awesome, that salmon weighed as much as the Osprey.Quote:
Originally Posted by chillinfish
I have seen 1 in my 47 years and it was at the mouth of Limestone Creek.
There is a pair nesting on Flint Creek just off hwy 67. And have returned for the last few years.
Ospreys are all over the Gulf Coast, them & Bald eagles.
It has been nice to see their resurgence over the last 15-20 years, another habitat/nesting conservation success story.
Take a trip to Fort Pickens sometime, literally dozens of huge nests in the trees, all in very close proximity to each other.
Or go up to any of the big catfish farming areas, you'll see lots of Osprey & Bald eagles.
Very cool birds!
Saw a Bald Eagle in Perdido Key a couple of weeks ago.
I see a few bald eagles from time to time here in Elmore county, they are always on the move though. I see a LOT of kestrels, coopers, and red tail Hawks around my house.
I like driving through the state park to get to te pier to see the Ospreys. When they fly over the pier I kinda "root" for him hoping he'll catch a fish.
There are several nesting pairs of Osprey around Guntersville Lake, with nests on power transmission towers and radio towers. If you are close enough when they come out of the water and do their "shudder/shake", it sounds like someone shaking out a wet blanket. They have been known to lift over 7 pounds!
Has anybody seen an update on the dead eagle they found by the zip slide.Was wondering if it was one of the pair nesting in the park.
they nest in the spring/summer all over the tennessee river around here. there is a pair that have nested for the last several years atop a phone tower near where i work.
From what I heard the one they found was the male that was part of the pair in the park.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert(Tato)Piteo
The last article I read was that it was the female of the nesting pair but no cause yet other than it was just a rumor it ran into the zip line. They have better eyesight than that. It was also mentioned that the young in the nest can be raised by the remaining parent.
I also see osprey from the pier regularly. Even saw one on the fence Thirsday overlooking perdido pass up on top of the bridge waiting for a meal. I also see them in the nests when cutting through the park along Lake Shelby, so they're around.
ive had them dive for my bait when fishing live bait on a float off the pier. I didn't realize until then that they would dive!
There are a blue million of them on the tn river chain. Almost every tree has a nest.
We also have 12or13 whooping cranes here at Wheeler
The osprey is one of the few bird that are world wide. Always carry there fish head forward because it is more aerodynamic.
Bald Eagles have become common around the causeway in winter. See one almost every week, sometimes 2 or 3. They really give the coots hell when 2 or 3 gang up on a flock.
I see a few bald eagles on Guntersville, Wheeler, and Pickwick buy never see the Osprey on my end of Wheeler.