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HAB911

(9,752 posts) Wed Mar 5, 2025, 10:06 AM Mar 2025

Tracking an Osprey in a 50mph dive is difficult

Need to work on my panning! It's much different than an airplane going in one direction, unfortunately lost him before contact with the water

see them all: https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/THE-GARDEN-AND-ABOVE/FLORIDA-FAUNA

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Tracking an Osprey in a 50mph dive is difficult (Original Post) HAB911 Mar 2025 OP

Those are great! I grew up in Tampa, where are you at? ms liberty Mar 2025 #1

HI! HAB911 Mar 2025 #2

Lol, I remember when Carrollwood was new! I had friends out in Lutz ms liberty Mar 2025 #8

Great shots! Walleye Mar 2025 #3

Thanks! HAB911 Mar 2025 #6

I look out my patio window at my pond and see this cachukis Mar 2025 #4

I was hoping to see it take a fish HAB911 Mar 2025 #5

Yes. At my old home, we lived on a pond which fed cachukis Mar 2025 #7

Amazing Photos! Callalily Mar 2025 #9

Wow! My dear HAB911! These are just plain spectacular! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2025 #10

Great job! Grumpy Old Guy Mar 2025 #11

ms liberty

(10,472 posts)

1. Those are great! I grew up in Tampa, where are you at?

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 10:10 AM

Mar 2025

HAB911

(9,752 posts)

2. HI!

Reply to ms liberty (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 10:24 AM

Mar 2025

I'm in Lutz. These photos were taken at Carrollwood Village Park, a lesser known and more refined Hillsborough County Park

ms liberty

(10,472 posts)

8. Lol, I remember when Carrollwood was new! I had friends out in Lutz

Reply to HAB911 (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:50 AM

Mar 2025

Family friends lived on Lake Allen, and then a high school buddy's parents lived off Lutz Lake Fern Rd. Both of those places were out on the boonies then!
I graduated from Leto in 77, and lived off Waters Ave close to Hanley Rd.

Walleye

(42,021 posts)

3. Great shots!

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 10:28 AM

Mar 2025

HAB911

(9,752 posts)

6. Thanks!

Reply to Walleye (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 10:32 AM

Mar 2025

cachukis

(3,396 posts)

4. I look out my patio window at my pond and see this

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 10:28 AM

Mar 2025

nearly everyday. Great capture.

HAB911

(9,752 posts)

5. I was hoping to see it take a fish

Reply to cachukis (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 10:31 AM

Mar 2025

but after three attempts, nothing. It's tough being an Osprey, lol

cachukis

(3,396 posts)

7. Yes. At my old home, we lived on a pond which fed

Reply to HAB911 (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 10:46 AM

Mar 2025

osprey. Tried to photo but am not that good.
One morning, while mowing my lawn, a saw a dead bird under the tall pine. It was a malnourished osprey. Know nothing about its age but they don't always come up with fish.
I live near where you caught your diver and love the panoply of birds at my new downsized residence. Quarter mile as the stone throw. Bet the birds I see now are the same ones that hung around my pond.