Male Osprey

Ospreys are back to Long Island, NY. This is a male osprey carrying a

half eated fish with him. He would catch a big fish in the morning,

eat the head immediately and then go with it for a few hours taking a

bite now and then.

Very good focus and excellent caption. 7/6

very good. 7/7

Really excellent,congrats!

Were you across the street from the nest, or with the late sun behind you? I hope I have the reach for similar shots with the 300mm + 1.4x...!

GREAT SHOT. What lens? What settings? I started shooting osprey in Long Island last year, but nothing as good as this image...not even close!

David, Hung, Veson, Chris, Linda, thank you for the comments!

 

Chris, it was 7:46am, this is nest which is close to the 3rd parking lot. The sun was behind me and i was located right next to the water.

 

Linda, you are definitely too hard on yourself, your osprey's images are FANTASTIC! My settings: Canon 20D, 500mm f4, iso200, 1/1600s, f/6.3, manual exp, partial metering, vertical crop + added some sky at the bottom, no flash, tripod

 

I find 20D to be a bit slow-focusing for this job.

Excellent bird photo, you ctch the moment. Congrats !