I apologize for the delay folks. I usually post during the weekend but, this time, I got stuck on a technical issue which I really had to fix for this particular post. Enjoy!

A couple of weeks ago I showed you pictures of an osprey on a branch. Last weekend I was lucky enough to see an osprey flying off the lake with a fish in its claws. He was far away, and I tried to take pictures but the focusing system of my camera didn’t cooperate. However upon walking up the lake shore as I approached that very same tree where I took the osprey pictures I showed you a couple of weeks ago, I found out that he was right there on the very same branch eating the fish. So, I took a few pictures, and then I thought, “why not shoot a video of this unusual event”. So, the photo gallery only has 3 pics.

But I am adding a high-res, very detailed 12 minutes video. It took me a whole day to make this video as good as I could. I hope you will like it.

If you watch the whole thing, you will see a few interesting things. For one, the osprey rips off the flesh of the fish, but he has to do that holding the fish in one claw while he holds onto the branch with the other. This is quite an acrobatic way of having dinner. Every once in a while he has to open his wings to regain his balance. At these moments, you  get a good idea of the wide spread of his wings.

Then you will see that this osprey sometimes tries to eat something that just won’t go down. Probably some fish bones. One thing we can be sure of is that he will throw it up even if it gets in, as you have seen in the pictures on my previous osprey post.