New York Times Photo
A couple of years ago Braumeister and I were cleaning-up and putting stuff away in the garage after cutting-up a deer.
Hey, did you know that you have an osprey around here?
Not that I'm aware-of. Why do you ask? - I answer.
There's one sitting right over there in the big tree along the line-fence.
With that - the bird takes to the air voicing a strained whistle.
It's back.
Albeit temporarily.
I was hauling wood in from the porch to fill the wood box in anticipation of an afternoon of football followed by reading in front of the fire when I noticed a very large raptor soaring above the grassy field behind the house.
They're a striking bird of prey and easy to identify with their distinctive dark wrist patches on the undersides of their crooked wings.
They don't live around here as I never see them during the warm months. Although I see bald eagles from time to time.
With more than a foot of snow on the ground and ice on the bay this bird seems to have gotten a late start on its trip south for the winter.
Strange - don't you think?
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Wow, that's cool!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that it is VERY unusual that you have an Osprey up there at this time, though.
And I have to say, if that's your own shot of it, congrats, it's great!
Alas - I tried to get a picture of it but nothing doing.
ReplyDeleteIf you check the fine print that would be a New York Times photo.
I checked my diary and until today the last osprey I saw here was on November 23rd of last year.
That bird must have been hanging-out until the lakes in its territory finally iced-over.