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 04/30/2006 11:45:52 AM · #1
We were out for a drive yesterday looking at houses and saw this guy in a marsh off of the river. Couldn't get very close since it was marsh and neither hubby or I were wearing apprpriate shoes. This was shot with my 45-150mm lens and cropped a great deal obviously. But this is as good as I could get it. Does anybody know what it is?



and here he is in flight a LONG ways out.


it's like he's got the body of a turkey buzzard and the head of a falcon. We thought he was a bald eagle from our distance and realized he was not when I uploaded these and zoomed in.

Message edited by author 2006-04-30 11:46:54.
 04/30/2006 11:47:03 AM · #2
This is an Osprey.
 04/30/2006 11:48:03 AM · #3
Well I'll be darned. I've seen my first osprey lol. He was HUGE!

I've seen a few hawks and falcons around here and there is one in our neighborhood that I THOUGHT was an osprey, but he's not nearly this big.
 04/30/2006 12:04:20 PM · #4
I concur with Osprey.
 04/30/2006 12:24:12 PM · #5
Definitely an Osprey. I am very familiar with them since we have plenty of them here in South Florida. They prey on the fish in the lake behind by house.
 04/30/2006 01:15:53 PM · #6
Sorry to go off topic here, but am I the only one who's seeing all that noise in the images?

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 04/30/2006 01:18:19 PM · #7
Originally posted by ignite:
Sorry to go off topic here, but am I the only one who's seeing all that noise in the images?


It's a long zoom with a major crop, noise is to be expected. You're not the only one that sees it, you're the only one that hasn't just ignored it as being a result of the circumstances.
 04/30/2006 02:53:19 PM · #8
Originally posted by ignite:
Sorry to go off topic here, but am I the only one who's seeing all that noise in the images?


Like I said in the original post had to use a 45-150mm lense and we were a LONG ways off. Here are the originals. Thank you for the noise notice though. I knew it was there and was not looking for a critique on my photos. I only wanted to know what the large bird was.







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