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I still have osprey/trout fever. Keep trying to get the shot that I

want..

hahah we're still on flu season right ? I'm not wonder you still fever .the trout so fresh the osprey so hungry . good shot

... IO Points ... congrats ... max A.

nice catch !!! a.r. 7/7

Impressive as always. Best regards.

Wow.. super.

Tremendous capture very well composed and exposed. Congrats !

Sensational, Monte...just amazing. 10/10, my friend. Regards, Lawrence.

Excellent capture Monte.

Fantastico momento, gran imagen.

Saludos.

Wonderful. Best regards and thank you.

Excellent again. 7/7anon. Best regards.

Extraordinary, Monte. I can only congratulate you with the tbo's! Regards, El

Great again. 7/7 and the best wishes for you and yours for this days. :-)

Monte. Una gran captura. Saludos, Joaquin 7/7 anon.

Another remarkable capture. Well done Monte.

And the new 500 bags another lefty catch.... nice shot. Thanks for adding the tech details.

Muy bien, muy muy caliente, otro fantástico de captura. :)

Great capture, excellent details in view larger.

Every time I look at these hunting pictures, I am struck again by how violent and mean spirited the quest for survival is, and it makes me question for the upteenth time the concept of a benevolent diety.

 

I mean, one second the poor fish was swimming peacefully, perhaps in the company of three of her young ones, at peace with the world and her surroundings, perhaps nibbling at an algae or two, and the next she was being grabbed in a vicious death grip, dragged out of the water in excruciating pain to suffocate to death from lack of oxygen.

 

Far off the horizon, of course, are three, maybe four cooing, helpless little chicks, starving and dying of thirst, wondering if they would ever see their mother again.

 

Perhaps, to complete this cycle, as this osprey with the anxious expression on her face hurries home with food for the family, a mongoose, also charged with providing for HER family, is slithering up the tree bark, seconds away from what she sees not as the children of this hunter we see here, but sustenance for her family.

 

As a design, methinks there is a rather glaring lack of intelligence to it all.

As usual you really have a flair for writing and quite the imagination I might add. It makes for good reading, but no babies involved here, at least not yet. I look at it as a part of the food chain, of which we are at the top. Truly for them, it is survival of the fittest, for use luckily we have a big brain.

Besides being a remarkable image...the image quality at ISO 1250 is just as remarkable. Happy Holidays, Monte. (I'll introduce myself next time I see you at BC.)