Might have gotten hold of a fish too large to handle and was lucky enough to
let go of it, but not before soaking its wings.... There are always stories
about Osprey being fished out of the water after such incidents.
Larry Federman
Education Coordinator
Audubon New York
Rheinstrom Hill, Buttercup Farm, and RamsHorn-Livingston Sanctuaries and
Centers
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From: steve rosenthal
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 7:19 PM
To: Richard Zaineldeen
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] osprey learning to swim? fly?
yes that certainly could be it. direct sun, no breeze, about 90
degrees at 10am...
On 6/2/13, Richard Zaineldeen <[email protected]> wrote:
It is possible it was cooling itself off?
Richard ZainEldeen
Brooklyn, New York
today while walking the shore of Florida Bay looking for
invertebrates, i suddenly noticed an osprey in the water as i
approached from the shore...it did not dive in while i was there...
its head and neck were sticking out of the water, and its wings were
held along the surface. first i thought maybe it was injured, and as i
started to walk out towards where it was , it began to stir,
eventually started flapping, and after more or less clumsily
skimming the surface and kicking the water, it eventually flew low
over the water to a semi- nearby mangrove island and landed in a
mangrove tree. was this a bird that may still have been learning
flight? is it unusual to see an osprey semi-submerged like that? seems
like the bottom there was too shallow (and the water way too turbid)
to be fishing
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