Jordan Lake Osprey Fledgling Fishing Flight 07/20/2019

By neighdoctor July 20, 2019 Jordan Lake Osprey Fledgling Fishing Flight 07/20/2019

Osprey Fledgling Fishing

From the start of his turn over in the sky to plunge toward the lake and the capture of his fish,

this male osprey fledgling was successful in his fishing flight this morning.

Jordan Lake Neighborhood 5 photos 07-18-2019

By neighdoctor July 18, 2019 Jordan Lake Neighborhood 5 photos 07-18-2019

Jordan Lake Neighborhood Raptors

The morning started off with the moon setting in a beautiful Carolina blue sky.

Then the eagles came by and then the ospreys.

First was Lady Lake, panting hard in the heat and humidity.

Then a bright-eyed 2-year-old harassed the osprey nest and arrogantly floated past me.

Dad osprey was showing his fledglings how to fish.

I wonder what the fledglings thought of the tiny fish dad captured!

Jordan Lake Neighborhood: Weight??? 07/11/2019

By neighdoctor July 11, 2019 Jordan Lake Neighborhood: Weight??? 07/11/2019

How much weight for your mass can you carry? And fly, at the same time?

This male osprey weighs about 3 to 3.5 pounds.

The largemouth bass weighs about 2 pounds.

It is utterly mind-bending every time I see an osprey fly past with a large fish.

Think on it: I couldn’t walk up a hill carrying more than half my own weight. Hmm…

Jordan Lake Fishing Free-For-All 07-10-2019

By neighdoctor July 10, 2019 Jordan Lake Fishing Free-For-All 07-10-2019

Jordan Lake Fishing Free-For-All

I was busy this morning and hardly knew which bird to follow!

There were fish schooling and the ospreys and cormorants had found them.

Cormorants would pop up, swallow their fish and dive, again and again.

Ospreys lined up like planes on a runway and zipped down to fish almost on top of the cormorants!

Don’t miss the fish that got away, to the right of the osprey, in the 2nd photo!!

Jordan Lake Osprey nest: Shelter Osprey, 10 photos 06-11-2019

By neighdoctor June 11, 2019 Jordan Lake Osprey nest: Shelter Osprey, 10 photos 06-11-2019

Shelter Osprey Nest

Ever have one of those days when you need to get the house straightened up?

You get started on rearranging things and then something is just not right?

That flight feather that has been annoying you decides it is going to be extra pesky.

Drat! Stop the work on the house. Pull the offending feather out!

Woooooffff!! Spit it out and watch it float away. So, there!!!

Jordan Lake: Hey Wait, I Think You Have My Fish! 06-06-2019

By neighdoctor June 6, 2019 Jordan Lake: Hey Wait, I Think You Have My Fish! 06-06-2019

Jordan Lake: Wait! Hold on! Hey, I think you have my fish!

I caught up with the osprey as he was coming up from a fishing dive.

I thought it was probably a decent set of shots.

Got home and started looking through the set and lo and behold, there was more action than I thought.

A cormorant popped up behind the osprey and was looking for his fish.

I don’t think the osprey deliberately stole the cormorant’s fish. Ospreys don’t do that kind of fishing.

I think both birds went for the same fish under water and the osprey got to the fish first.

But I gotta say the cormorant sure looks woeful as the osprey flies off with the fish!