The Osprey by Faemike55

Photography • Animals • posted on Jun 05, 2009

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What you are looking at is a platform, built by Clark Public Utilities, for the nesting Ospreys in the area. they do this for two reasons, Providing a safe place for the osprey to nest and thus preventing their untimely demise by nesting on the power poles directly and possibly electorcuting themselves as well as shorting out the system. This particular platform just happens to be behind the place where I work and so I took the opportunity to take several photos, walking up to the pole. the osprey just watched me and let me take its picture. here is information from Wiki: Osprey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia North American subspecies Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Accipitriformes Family: Pandionidae Sclater & Salvin, 1873 Genus: Pandion Savigny, 1809 Species: P. haliaetus Binomial name Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the sea hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching 60 centimeters (24 in) in length with a 1.8 metre (6 ft) wingspan. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts, with a black eye patch and wings. The Osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. It is found on all continents except Antarctica although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant. As its other common name suggests, the Osprey's diet consists almost exclusively of fish. It has evolved specialised physical characteristics and exhibits unique behaviour to assist in hunting and catching prey. As a result of these unique characteristics, it has been given its own taxonomic genus, Pandion and family, Pandionidae. Four subspecies are usually recognised. Despite its propensity to nest near water, the Osprey is not a sea-eagle. Thank you for your comments and faves. I wish you all a great Friday. Mike

Comments (59)

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renecyberdoc

1:07PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

yeah with osprey i was lost,did not knew the expression,sea-hawk ok. as you see the one can even learn useful things on rr.fantastic shot. and great idea for the platform,some people must have brains lucky you-hihi.

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angelafair

2:25PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

Awesome shot Mike! This is Fantastic!!!

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ladyinblack

2:46PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

Wow, wonderful capture! Great to know there are people who do this kind of thing for those birds... too many seem to not care about the creatures of our world :)

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AGentleMuse

2:57PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

Lovely blue sky and capture!

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Valery3D

3:32PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

Fantastic that you noticed this bird and his place!! Excellent capture my friend!

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jocko500

4:00PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

wonderful shot

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loligagger

4:12PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

Great shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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durleybeachbum

4:16PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

So interesting!

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magnus073

5:46PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

Now this is a great idea Mike and I wish more cities would do this

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eekdog

5:51PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

very cool capture mike, like your added story about these birds.

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traceyjane

6:26PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

great photo with mum looking out, how did you notice it right up there?

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MagikUnicorn

7:10PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

Now they are ok... ;-) safe place

SerenityBlue

10:40PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

That's a good idea! Excellent capture. They seem to appreciate the perches. Great POV.

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irakika

11:58PM | Fri, 05 June 2009

Very good shot!

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DennisReed

12:43AM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Superb Mike!

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Minda

3:14AM | Sat, 06 June 2009

beautiful photo and superb shot mike!

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clbsmiley

9:33AM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Cool!!!! great burglar deterrent for the osprey at least from below!!! And kudos to who figured out how to help the wildlife and the electric co.

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Miska7

1:08PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Very nice capture! Well done.

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flaviok

2:15PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Fantástica captura meu amigo, aplausos (5)

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raven916

8:23PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Great photo Mike, love the history and story you did along with the photo. See I can get some education : )

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mikeerson

11:23PM | Sun, 07 June 2009

LOL... they didn't let you take the picture, they didn't have their bombs ready or else you would of been in trouble - lol... cool picture Mike, I'm glad they didn't bomb you... but... that doesn't mean they won't try, keep your eyes open - LOL

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